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Institutional Evolution: How Monticello faced and interpreted a legacy of slavery

By Elizabeth V. Chew

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. A statue of Thomas Jefferson stands before a curved wall. A sculpture of the nation’s third president certainly isn’t unusual. …
Magnetism and the Art of Engagement

By Anne Bergeron

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. An excerpt from Magnetic The Art and Science of Engagement, The AAM Press, 2013. In the AAM book Magnetic: The Art and Science of …
Making Mysteries

By Don Wildman

This article originally appeared in the 2013 September/October 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. Don Wildman, host of the hugely popular Travel Channel series, Mysteries at the Museum, came to the Alliance Annual Meeting & Museum …
A Clear View: The Wellin Museum of Art creates a new model for the university museum

By Stefanie S. Jandl

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. On a recent spring day on the campus of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art was a hive of activity, …
All In The Family: It’s win-win when museums engage homeschoolers.

By Dina Rose Friedman

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2013 edition of Museum magazine. It’s 9:30 on a Tuesday morning, and already the museum shop of 19th-century author Washington Irving’s Sunnyside, part of a network of house …
Unfinished Business

By Heather Radke

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. An adult diaper, a pill box, a plain spiral notebook, a yellow sponge, a mess of bank documents, a photo album, a broom. Each of these items rests in a …
The Indigenous Museum Model

By Michael Reinschmidt

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2013 edition of Museum magazine. Native museums face sustainability challenges but lead the way. The majority of today’s Native American museums are relatively young organizations …
How Does Your Garden Grow?

By Patsy Benveniste, Sharon Lee and Donald A. Rakow

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2013 edition of Museum magazine. Managed landscapes at museums enhance the visitor experience. When visitors step into an urban museum with its front door just off the sidewalk or at the …
I Have A Confession: I’m An Adult

By Winifred Kehl

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2013 edition of Museum magazine. How can science museums welcome grown-ups? I don’t have children, but I like to go to science museums and play with the exhibits. You might think …
Chang Tang Nature Reserve

By George B. Schaller, Ph.D.

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2013 edition of the Museum Magazine. This center of heaven, This core of the earth, This heart of the world, Fenced round with snow, The headland of all rivers, Where the mountains are high …