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On the Ground: How Visitor Experience Teams Are Teaching Front-Line Staff to Be DEAI Advocates
Category: Alliance BlogIn the museum experience world, making visitors feel welcome is serious business. Our goal is to exceed guests’ standards for positive experiences, and nothing undermines that goal like a … -
Visitors with Vision Loss
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the July/August 2012 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Art Beyond Sight/Art Education for the Blind (ABS) encourages the visual arts … -
Bringing a Collections Catalogue to Life
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogWhen the Walker Art Center launched their redesigned website in 2011, it was hailed as a “game-changer,” changing the focus of the site from the museum as destination to the museum as … -
CSISOS: Cool Sessions in Search of Speakers
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThe call for proposals for the AAM 2013 annual meeting closes on Friday, Aug. 24. As I’ve explained in an earlier post, this year AAM is encouraging people to post early drafts of their … -
Announcing Education Future Fiction Challenge Winners
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogHi, Sylvea here… In late January the we invited museum professionals, educators, futurists, education policy advocates, and community allies to contribute their vision of an … -
Museums, Health, and Wellness Compendium
For years, museums have demonstrated their public value as educational providers, community anchors, and stewards of our national heritage. They’ve also earned a reputation for driving … -
What’s the secret ingredient in the Tsongas Industrial History Center’s success?
Officially opened 25 years ago as a partnership between the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Graduate School of Education and Lowell National Historical Park, the Tsongas Industrial … -
Psyched about Storytelling
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogAAM just announced the theme for our 2013 annual meeting in Baltimore, and it is (drumroll, please): Storytelling This is such a great theme, for many reasons. While people who work in, and …