MTA Spring 2019 Events
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Phoenix, AZ
Editor’s Picks
What’s Wrong With This Diorama? You Can Read All About It
On the first floor of the American Museum of Natural History, a diorama depicts an imagined 17th-century meeting between Dutch settlers and the Lenape, an Indigenous tribe inhabiting New …
Upcoming Events
Allyship 101
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LGBTQ Alliance Task Force for Transgender Inclusion
Workshop: Collections Camp: Textiles
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American Association for State and Local History
Hartford, CT
Latest Stories from AAM
What does it mean to decolonize a museum?
By Elisa Shoenberger In the past few years, museums across the US, Europe, and Australia are trying to tackle the challenge of decolonizing their institutions. However, the very meaning of …
Writing Fashion History at the Met, One Dress at a Time
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Collections Stewardship
How a behind-the-scenes museum team keeps 33,000 fashion ensembles alive and looking their best. Fashion history won't be written in ink. You can't even use a pen in the library at the Anna …
Seven broad statements that may or may not help your museum do a bit better at social media
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Marketing & Public Relations
But it depends on your specific context and struggles A thicc sheep and a chicken in trousers catapulted The Museum of English Rural Life to viral fame on Twitter in 2018. We've gone from …