• Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News 3/3/2017

    This week’s Roundup shares stories of a big art museum resignation, new museums opening, a whole country celebrating International Women’s Day through its museums and some thoughts about relevancy in these times. Enjoy! 1. The …
  • Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News 2/24/2017

    This week’s Roundup shares stories celebrating one million visitors at NMAAHC, speaking up for arts funding, developing museum professionals, recognizing the importance of fair use and learning how to use data in your museum. Enjoy! …
  • Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News 2/17/2017

    This week’s Roundup shares stories about the virtues of complexity, #DayOfFacts, alternate reality in service of accessibility, #Art-Less without immigrants, and some tips for crafting a meaningful visitor experience. Enjoy! 1. We’ll …
  • Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News 2/10/2017

    This week’s five opens access to 375,000 images, ponders preserving the spirit of punk rock, immerses into virtual reality, writes social stories and develops risk-takers. Enjoy! 1. Earlier this week the Metropolitan Museum of Art …
  • Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News 2/3/2017

    Enjoy your weekend with this week’s five picks for the Roundup.  1. Black History Month in the U.S. is intended to honor, as President Ford stated in his 1976 address officially designating the month, the “too-often neglected …
  • Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News

    Welcome to our fresh baked new column entitled Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News. Here we’ll pick 5 stories from the week that we found relevant, intriguing, fun or all of the above.  1. We’ll start this week’s …
  • The Human Experience

    This article originally appeared in the September/October 2015 issue of Museum magazine. A conversation with NEH Chairman Dr. William “Bro” Adams After being nominated by President Obama to serve as chairman of the National Endowment for …
  • The New Super Circular for Federal Awards

    What is the Super Circular? The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in its efforts to deliver on the promise of a 21st-Century government that is more efficient, effective and transparent, has streamlined the OMB Circulars on …

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