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With over 70 programs to choose from, our on-demand programs cover a range of topics and offer an affordable, accessible, and convenient online learning opportunity for you, your staff, and your colleagues.
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Trendswatch: Museum Schools as Community Infrastructure
Blackbaud hosted the annual TrendsWatch webinar, this year focusing on Museum Schools as Community Infrastructure. Hear about how museums have stepped up to fill in the gaps for PreK-12 …
Agents Of Change: How IMPs Can Inspire & Partner With Their Clients
Handout of additional resources Slides from webinar What does it take to mobilize institutions to question their role in society, shift their culture, and better serve their communities? …
IMPs Talk: Strengthening Collaborations
Handout of additional resources Slides from webinar As an IMP, do you feel like it’s you against the world? Are you trying to figure everything out on your own? Are we all going for the …
Everything RFP: Running Your Business Series
Handout of additional resources For independent museum professionals, a Request for Proposal or RFP is a great way to identify projects and partnerships with museums. However, the RFP …
CARE-apy: Analyzing Data for Action
You’ve figured out your evaluation questions and methods and collected your data, but now what? Join us for a CARE-apy discussion about what happens after your evaluation data have been …
CARE-apy: Discussing Data Collection Methods
Watch this recorded CARE-apy session where we explore numerous evaluation methods that you can use to understand a variety of things, including: Information that will help you make …
Yes, I’m a Real Person! Adapting Your Volunteer Program during Instability
This is a recorded session from the 2021 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. As it cautiously reopened after closing for COVID-19, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum …
Your Museum Career Now What Career Resilience in a Post COVID Climate
As museum staff return from unprecedented furloughs and layoffs, not all the jobs that were there pre-COVID will return as well. For many professionals, this will be a chance to shift to a …
The Uses of Discomfort LGBTQ Collections Their Repositories and Their Legacies
People left out of traditional cultural narratives are forced to become the custodians of their own histories. For queer institutions, this means collecting stigmatized materials that other …
The Unionization of Museums What Management and Staff Need to Know
Learn the basics of the collective bargaining process, the advantages and disadvantages of unionization, and strategies to manage the various possible outcomes of the voti…
Museum Accessibility Helping Patrons Who Are Blind to See Your Exhibitions
Audio description (AD), a relatively inexpensive and readily available technology, broadens the museum experience for all people and particularly for patrons who cannot see or have low …