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Curator as Catalyst: How an interdisciplinary fellowship inspired “a new way of doing museum”

By Dr. Edith Doron

A few years ago, I had the unique opportunity to work across four fiercely independent and starkly different museums in the fine arts, sciences, and natural history. After being awarded ACLS Public Fellow with the Carnegie Museums of …

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