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Toward Equity in Metadata: How Sandy Spring Museum Is Going beyond Reparative Cataloging
Equity: freedom from bias or favoritism Metadata: data that describes and provides context for digital items, which in turn helps users find and discover these resources. Though Black and white residents numbered almost equally throughout … -
Black History in Our Own Backyard: Building Community in a COVID World
Lately, at the Neill-Cochran House Museum we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what community means, and the best way we can define it for our institution. This question has become even more critical since the COVID-19 pandemic …
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Alliance Blog
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Alliance Blog
For decades, the traditional museum model was simple: charge an entry fee, offer an …
Glitter and Grit: Exhibition Critique
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This critique first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2026) Vol. 45 No. 2 and is …