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Observations and thoughts around museum practice and institutional empathy
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![Empathy Loop: A gathering for empathetic practitioners [Nov.]](https://empatheticmuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/post_empathy_loop_21.png?w=934)
Empathy Loop: A gathering for empathetic practitioners [Nov.]
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Read more: Empathy Loop: A gathering for empathetic practitioners [Nov.]Join our virtual space for activities designed to help you and your team develop skills and strategies that build more effective, connected, and responsive policies and practices, both as individuals and as an organization.
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![Empathy Loop: A gathering for empathetic practitioners [Sept.]](https://empatheticmuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/post_empathy_loop1.png?w=934)
Empathy Loop: A gathering for empathetic practitioners [Sept.]
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Read more: Empathy Loop: A gathering for empathetic practitioners [Sept.]Join our monthly virtual space for activities designed to help you and your team develop skills and strategies that build more effective, connected, and responsive policies and practices, both as individuals and as an organization.
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Mayday! Mayday!: Leaning into Empathy in Times of Crisis
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Read more: Mayday! Mayday!: Leaning into Empathy in Times of CrisisWe are using the international distress call to ask: How are you responding in this moment? What support, practices, and next steps are critical to build community in tumultuous times?
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![Public Historians, Empathetic People: Building Humane Leadership and Work Cultures [NCPH]](https://empatheticmuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ncph_2025.png?w=1024)
Public Historians, Empathetic People: Building Humane Leadership and Work Cultures [NCPH]
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Read more: Public Historians, Empathetic People: Building Humane Leadership and Work Cultures [NCPH]As the Annual National Council on Public History Meeting (March 26–29) in Québec approaches, discussions within the working groups are already underway. Jackie Peterson, a member of The Empathetic Museum, is contributing to the group “Public Historians, Empathetic…
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10 Days of Empathy
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Read more: 10 Days of EmpathyWhat do we really mean when we say Empathetic Museum? The qualities of 21st century museums are impossible without an inner core of institutional empathy: the intention of the museum to be, and be perceived as, deeply connected…
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Keynote Address by Gretchen Jennings, on Empathy as Action
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Read more: Keynote Address by Gretchen Jennings, on Empathy as ActionIn this keynote address for the 2022 Conference of the Association of Art Museum Curators, Gretchen Jennings, our co-founder, shares about The Empathetic Museum philosophy and work confronting histories of colonialism, racism, and privilege and for the practice…
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Jornada Telemática DIM22: Empatía institucional
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Read more: Jornada Telemática DIM22: Empatía institucionalEn 2022, en el marco del Día Internacional de los Museos, Nayeli Zepeda compartió con la Red de Museos Etnográficos de Asturias —cuyas instituciones ya habían trabajado con el Modelo de Madurez— la fundación de Empathetic Museum, su…
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![[COLLECTIVE LIBERATION] Disrupt, Dismantle, Manifest](https://empatheticmuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/image.png?w=1024)
[COLLECTIVE LIBERATION] Disrupt, Dismantle, Manifest
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Read more: [COLLECTIVE LIBERATION] Disrupt, Dismantle, ManifestThe 2021 Equity Coalition Convening aims to address systemic racial inequities in museums, emphasizing the need for internal and external transformations. A call for proposals invites individuals to contribute ideas for sessions focused on embedding racial justice. The…
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An Empathetic Museum is an Antiracist Museum
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Read more: An Empathetic Museum is an Antiracist MuseumInstitutional empathy must replace embedded white privilege and colonialism to create inclusive spaces. We advocates for deeper empathy as a vital counterpart to antiracism in museum practices.
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Strategic Empathy Planning: Questions for the QuaranTime
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Read more: Strategic Empathy Planning: Questions for the QuaranTimeWe recognize the complexities of current times, emphasizing the need for human connection amidst social distancing. As museums navigate unprecedented challenges, they must reconsider their roles and operations, focusing on empathetic actions that benefit staff and communities. The…
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How to Be An Empathetic Museum in this Troubled Time | Cómo ser un museo empático en tiempos difíciles
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Read more: How to Be An Empathetic Museum in this Troubled Time | Cómo ser un museo empático en tiempos difícilesWe at The Empathetic Museum are mindful of and concerned about the current and future impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our many communities, especially the vulnerable. At a time when our values and instincts drive us to be…
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Curator Journal: Past, Present, & Future of The Empathetic Museum
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Read more: Curator Journal: Past, Present, & Future of The Empathetic MuseumOver the summer and fall of 2018, our merry band of empathetic museum players hit pause for a moment to take stock in the work we had accomplished as a group and in deep collaboration with others across…
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