Visitors with Vision Loss
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Museum Magazine
This 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 …
On the Ground: How Visitor Experience Teams Are Teaching Front-Line Staff to Be DEAI Advocates
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Alliance Blog
In 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 …
What are Ethics? A Brief Essay in Plain English
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This essay introduces Round Two of the Forecasting the Future of Museum Ethicsexercise. Follow this link, to vote on which of which of the issues identified in Round One will be most …
9 Colossal Exhibit Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
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Exhibitions
A Comprehensive Tipsheet to Thoughtful Curation, Engaging Exhibits, and How to Limit Headaches When Bringing Museum Experiences to Life. This tipsheet was developed by Elizabeth Skrabonja …
SWF ISO Museum Position
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This week’s guest post is an interview with future museum professional Paige LaCour, student in museum management at Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies and volunteer at …
The Post-educational Museum
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
The 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 …
Gone Digital: Creating Space-Saving Museum Exhibitions
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Alliance Blog
Most museums, large and small, have space issues, but the problem can be much more acute for local history museums. Developing creative, space-conscious methods for mounting exhibitions and …
Stitching Together Open Collections Data
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
In TrendsWatch 2015 I cited last year’s CitStitch Hackathon as an example of natural history museums collaborating with the public to create open datasets about collections. So I was super …
Becoming a Data Startup – Part 2
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Alliance Blog
It’s time again for our next installment of Becoming a Data Startup! For those of you who read along in our last post, you learned some simple tips and tricks for formatting your data that …
2001 MUSE Award Winners
Interpretation/Education: Science: Gold (overall): Fact, Theory and Speculation, The Field Museum. (video) Silver (audio): Nature Guide–Audio Interpretive Tour, The Cleveland Museum …
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