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Inclusive Digital Interactives

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London’s National Gallery Lends a $4.5 Million Masterpiece to a Women’s Prison

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Last year, Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria by the Italian baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi became the first work by a female artist to be acquired by the National Gallery in …

Quebec’s Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Sets Example in Arts-Based Wellness

By Meilan Solly, Smithsonian
smithsonian.com Stephen Legari works with some 1,200 patients a year at Quebec's Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA). Yes, you read that right, patients. Hired in May 2017, he was the first …

Testing the DNA in Museum Artifacts Can Unlock New Natural History, but Is it Worth the Potential Damage?

By Jess Romeo, Smithsonian
smithsonian.com With enormous, curved horns and a massive stature-growing over five and a half feet tall and weighing in at more than a ton-the extinct aurochs bull conjures visions of an …

New Study Offers Clues to Dominance of Curve-Filled Museum Designs

By Meilan Solly, Smithsonian
smithsonian.com Curved edges abound in architecture-particularly when it comes to museums, with cultural institutions ranging from Spain's Guggenheim Bilbao to France's Louis Vuitton …

Why Museums Should Be Proud Polling Sites

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By Charles A. Hyde, Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site smithsonian.com On a sweltering August morning in Washington, D.C., I found myself indoors at a conference of other heads of …

Fall Down the Rabbit Hole With the New York Public Library’s Instagram Version of Classic Tales

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It's been 153 years since the protagonist of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland first offered a pointed literary indictment: As she asks in the novel's opening lines, "What is …

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Annual Report Template

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Category: Governance & Support Organizations
An annual report is more than just a document; it’s a powerful engagement tool. It serves as a window into the museum’s soul, offering a transparent view of financial vitality, program …

Language/Arts: How the Verbal and Visual Intersect in Museums

By Glenna Barlow
Category: Alliance Blog
A 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 …

Define Museum: A Q&A with the Museum Glossary Project Team

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By Adam Rozan
Category: Alliance Blog
One of my all-time favorite sayings is, “If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together,” which was the case with the Museum Marketing, Communications, & Audience …

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