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In Praise of Mission Creep

By Elizabeth Merritt

My focus this year is on exploring the ways museums serve as essential infrastructure for their communities: improving education for our children, creating livable communities for our elders, fostering mental health, helping prepare for …
The Ever Evolving American Identity: a New Mission at The Tenement Museum

By Kevin Jennings

What should a museum do when its subject matter becomes one of the most contested political issues of the day? This is the question I was quickly confronted with upon assuming leadership of the Tenement Museum in July 2017. With …

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