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3 Trauma-Informed Practices for Museums to Follow
Category: Alliance BlogEarlier this year, I presented at MuseumNext’s Museums, Health, and Wellbeing Summit about what we risk by not integrating trauma-informed practices and values into our work. In my talk, I … -
Reinventing the Historic House Museum: MJT meets the Civil War
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogHere is another brief brain jotting as I take a break from writing TrendsWatch 2015. I’ve been vastly enjoying blog postsand tweets from Frank Vagnone, author of the Anarchist Guide to … -
Are Museums the Rightful Home for Confederate Monuments?
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogIn a chapter titled “Capture the Flag: the struggle over representation and identity,” CFM’s TrendsWatch 2016 explored the growing pressure for museums to play a role in the detoxification … -
The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2019
Category: Alliance BlogIt was a whirlwind year of museums making themselves over for our changing world. Evolving ethics, social and technological transformation, and the looming presence of the bottom line are … -
Students Solve a History Mystery and Teach a Lesson in Collaboration
Category: Alliance BlogFourth and fifth graders at Silverton Elementary School reversed roles with teachers and set an example of how museums and schools can work together to broaden the telling of a community’s … -
Putting Social Science to Work in Climate Change Interpretation
Category: On-Demand ProgramsPublic engagement efforts on climate change must start with the fundamental recognition that people have different psychological, cultural, and political reasons for acting—or not acting—to … -
Building the Dreamspace in Museum Education
Category: Alliance BlogSage Morgan-Hubbard is the Ford W. Bell Fellow in P-12 Education and Museums at the American Alliance of Museums. I have been asking Alyssa Machida to share her brilliance with all of … -
Museums and ADA@25
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the September/October 2015 issue of Museum magazine. Progress and looking ahead These artworks were on display in “The Art of the Lived Experiment” at … -
The Future of Museum Conferences, continued: Why Not Run a Conference Like Maker Faire?
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogI just got back from an intense, exhausting, exhilarating week in northern California that encompassed two very different conference-like events–the Creativity and Collaboration … -
Future Chat: Managing Digital Risk
Your museum has embraced the digital world. Digitized collections, an asset management system, ticketing, customer relations system, volunteer and event management, and other solutions to …
