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An International Experience at #AAM2019

By Angela Gala

After moving back to Europe from America in 2016, I had never been able to come visit until last month. That’s when I flew all the way to New Orleans to attend this year’s Annual Meeting of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and …
Gabriela’s Bridge: Connecting Connecticut and Amazonian Brazil

By William E. Jeffries

William E. Jeffries, III is the director of strategic initiatives at Stepping Stones Museum for Children in Norwalk, Connecticut. The media has been permeated recently with stories that suggest an increase in physical and social barriers …
What Are You Going to Build?: Creating a ‘Brighter World’ through International Exchange

By Alexandra Roe

We stood near the back of a crowded art room surrounded by mismatched couches and stools where students fresh out of class and/or work for the day were seated: one rummaging through her backpack, a few typing away on their smartphones, …
Fourteen US Museum Educators to Visit China for Professional Exchange of Ideas

By American Alliance of Museums

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 21, 2016 ARLINGTON, VA–A team of 14 education specialists from US museums will visit China Nov. 29 – Dec. 5 to meet with their counterparts from Chinese museums in a first-of-its-kind program titled, …
Girls Design the World

By Megan Lantz

How can teens play a role in solving some of the most urgent environmental issues of our time? That is one of the questions 42 girls from Minneapolis, Minnesota and Nairobi, Kenya considered through Girls Design the World, an international …

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