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Strategizing Me: Making a Personal Career Plan Effective leaders create mission statements to shape their museum careers.

By Anne W. Ackerson

The one thing that can be said universally about people who work in the museum profession is that they’re here by choice. Nobody really twisted anybody’s arm to work among beautiful objects or bewildering specimens, with fascinating or …
Museum Leadership, Organizational Readiness, and Institutional Transformation

By Marsha Semmel

This case study was a part of a series on museum leadership, developed for the career and leader-ship management workshop for participants in the International Program, held at the AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo in May, 2016. This …
Museum Directors on Mentorship and Their Professional Journeys

By Michael E. Shapiro

All museum directors started off as young people trying to find their way. Recently, in a series of interviews conducted for the book Eleven Museums / Eleven Directors: Conversations on Art & Leadership, art museum directors spoke …
Museum Directors on Mentorship and Their Professional Journey

By Michael E. Shapiro

This article originally appeared in the March/April edition of Museum magazine. All museum directors started off as young people trying to find their way. Recently, in a series of interviews conducted for the book Eleven Museums/ Eleven …
Museum Leadership, Organizational Readiness, and Institutional Transformation

By Marsha Semmel

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2017 edition of Museum magazine. This case study was a part of a series on museum leadership, developed for the career and leadership management workshop for participants in the …
Imagine FutureEd Competition Invites Students’ Views of the Future

By Katherine Prince

Even though my job focuses on the future of learning, I did not begin learning to think about the future until I was thirty-five years old. Without much conceptual framework to support my introduction to KnowledgeWorks’ first ten-year …
The Future Starts with Early Childhood

By Lori Valente Coffey

In 2010, as an elementary art teacher, I was surprised to find myself in awe of early learners. I hadn’t realized how important being exposed to art and museums was for little children. I didn’t fully realize that the brain grows 90% in …
Exploring Art Museum Education and Community Well-being

By Christine Pace

After completing my B.A. in art education, I did what many recent graduates do- I explored. I felt the need to keep learning, so I stepped outside the cinderblock walls of public school and into the open, marble structure of the art …
A Space for Resilience/A Space for All

By Mac Buff

I agreed to write a blog post about cultural responsiveness in education before November 8. To be honest, I didn’t have much of an idea of what I would write then, but I woke up November 9th with even less direction. And then I listened to …
Navigating Your Museum Career: Educators at the Intersection of Disciplines

By Alli Hartley

When I was applying for graduate school in museum education, I remember being asked as part of the interview where I saw the degree taking me. At that point in my life, I was confident that my career would follow the exact trajectory that …