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The Post-educational Museum
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThe recent kerfluffle about whether museums should be included in the federal stimulus bill was a depressing reminder of the narrow stereotypes into which museums force themselves in order … -
Tips for Museum Educators to become Exhibition Design Facilitators
Category: ExhibitionsAs a museum educator, do you ever feel forgotten? Feel as though your expertise was relegated to the tail-end of exhibition planning? Do you wish museum education played a larger leadership … -
Copyright at the Crossroads: A call for museum engagement at the international level
Category: Alliance BlogOn October 18-19, 2019, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will be holding an open two-day meeting in Geneva about copyright exceptions for libraries, archives, and … -
Unfinished Business
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the May/June 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. An adult diaper, a pill box, a plain spiral notebook, a yellow sponge, a mess of bank documents, a … -
Three Core Values That Will Boost Your Museum Writing
Category: Alliance BlogWriting well is essential for communicating information in any field, especially in educational institutions like museums. However, with the wide range of roles museum professionals fill, … -
Take a Seat
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the September/October 2008 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Here is a scene I witnessed on a recent visit to a major American art … -
Many Visions, Shared Trust
Category: Museum MagazineThe Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County collaborated with artists—and among departments—to highlight the value of its collections research. This article originally appeared … -
Language/Arts: How the Verbal and Visual Intersect in Museums
Category: Alliance BlogA picture is worth a thousand words. Or so the aphorism tells us. What, then, is the value of a single word? That is the question I have explored time and again as an educator in an art … -
Philosophy of Choice: What if visitors could choose their own intellectual pathways in museum exhibitions?
Category: Museum MagazineWhat if visitors could choose their own intellectual pathways in museum exhibitions? This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s July/August 2024 issue, a benefit of … -
Staying in Touch: Addressing Concerns to Allow Tactile Exploration at Museums
Category: Alliance BlogThe COVID-19 pandemic is creating new norms that discourage touching all manner of objects to curtail the spread of the virus. However, when public spaces reopen, understandable concern …
