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Rethinking the modern house museum

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A corkscrewing creation in the Arizona desert, the David and Gladys Wright House boasts an impressive pedigree. Built in 1952, this three-bedroom nautilus of a home, designed by …

Montreal museum partners with doctors to ‘prescribe’ art

By BBC News, BBC News

Why Museums Should Be Proud Polling Sites

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Where does police brutality fit in America’s first law enforcement museum?

By David Smith, The Guardian

Is it a museum or not? The question is worth asking.

By Philip Kennicott, Washington Post

This Philadelphia museum hired Iraqi and Syrian refugees as tour guides for its Middle East gallery

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Where ‘Human Zoos’ Once Stood, A Belgian Museum Now Faces Its Colonial Past

By Joanna Kakissis, NPR.org

Teens use tech to talk art: Amplifying teen voice and art interpretation

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Wikipedia Is Digitally ‘Preserving’ Items Destroyed in the Brazil National Museum Fire

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New app turns Twin Cities’ largest museum into a giant escape room

By Kathy Berdan, Twin Cities

The scary vulnerability of museums

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Where are blacks, women? Living history museums rethink past

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A Museum’s Transformation: Cleveland Museum of Art Goes Deep for Inclusion

By Chelsea Dennis, Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Category: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion
August 29, 2018; Next City Issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion are not new to the art museum world. NPQ has reported extensively on the underrepresentation of people of color and the …

Museums With a Single Focus: How to Attract The Non-Enthusiast

By Andrea Jones, Peak Experience Lab
Category: Visitor Experience
When I arrived at the Finger Lakes Boating Museum to discover dozens and dozens of recreational wooden boats so lovingly displayed, I could tell there was a lot of passion for this …

Mission Accomplished?: As Mainstream Art Museums Rush to Diversify, What is the Role of Culturally Specific Museums Working for a Cause?

By Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews
Category: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion
In July, El Museo del Barrio, a museum in upper Manhattan devoted to exhibiting and collecting Latinx and Latin American art, issued a statement in response to the family separation crisis …