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2019 Award Winner for Innovation in Museum Education: Wa kuk wa jimor (“Canoe of One Community”)

By Allyn Lord

The EdCom Award for Innovation in Museum Education recognizes, encourages, and celebrates new, creative ways of engaging with audiences. The Shiloh Museum of Ozark History’s approach to collaborating with the local Marshallese …
Building A Framework: The museum sector needs to rethink digital skills—from the ground up.

By Carolyn Royston and Ross Parry

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. The museum—finally—is digital. Today’s museums have collections shared through connected databases, exhibitions powered by …

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