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Museums Can Change the World: Improving the Nation’s Health

By Elizabeth Merritt

A projection for the U.S., by 2030: Obesity prevalence will rise to ~50% in men between 45% and 52% in women. There will be: 7.8 million extra cases of diabetes; 6.8 million more cases of coronary heart disease and stroke; 539,000 …
Do Museums Need to Care about Foodies?

By Elizabeth Merritt

This guest post is by Susie Wilkening, senior consultant and curator of museum audiences, Reach Advisors. We’ve been blogging a lot about food, leading up to the symposium Feeding the Spirit: Museums, Food & Community in Pittsburgh …
Agriculture Training Symposium for Historic Site and Museum Professionals

By Elizabeth Merritt

Proving yet again that this is the year of all things food, for museums, Kristin Hagar, development and communications coordinator at The Wyck Association shares the following opportunity to explore how food can help museums build …
Don’t Just Stir It, Shake It!

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s guest post is by Richard V. Piacentini, executive director of Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. Richard previews one of the themes we will explore next month at Feeding the Spirit: Museums, Food & Community—how …
Food: the Universal Communicator

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s guest post is by Jennifer Rothman, associate vice president for children’s and public education at the New York Botanical Garden. Jennifer contributes to our ongoing exploration of museums, food and community. Interested? Join …
Seeds Of Change: Museums tap food trends, reap rewards.

By Rina Rapuano

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2011 edition of Museum magazine. Considering all the signs that read “No food or drinks allowed,” most museum visitors probably never imagined walking into a gallery to …
Big Food: Health, Culture and the Evolution of Eating

By Elizabeth Merritt

Ella Mitchell, an intern in AAM’s Government Relations and Advocacy department, reports on an innovative collaboration between the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, and CARE—Community Alliance …
At the Phillips, Just Take the Stairs

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s guest video is introduced by Dorothy Kosinski, director of The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. For me, the future of museums has a lot to do with supporting an overall sense of well-being for our visitors and community. In …
Museums Can Save the World: Tackling Food Deserts

By Elizabeth Merritt

Take a look at DC’s food deserts: The pink areas are food deserts. In D.C., they are all located in Wards 5, 7 and 8. Image is from DCentric Pretty scary, yes? All those swathes of pink are low income communities where at least 33% of …
Introducing Food Day!

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s guest post is by Carolina Sánchez-Hervás, Food Day assistant coordinator at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit watchdog group that advocates for nutrition and health, food safety, alcohol policy and sound …