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Observations and thoughts around museum practice and institutional empathy
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Update on the Empathetic Museum
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Read more: Update on the Empathetic MuseumOn September 12, 2014, on Museum Life, Carol Bossert updated a 2013 conversation I had with her about The Empathetic Museum. In this rebroadcast Carol linked the conversation to the recent efforts of the Missouri History Museum, located in St. Louis,…
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The Incluseum
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Read more: The IncluseumThe Incluseum is an initiative based in Seattle, Washington that blogs, tweets, and provides resources and information on greater inclusiveness in museums. The project seeks to build community around issues of inclusion and social justice and to partner with…
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Social Justice Alliance for Museums
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Read more: Social Justice Alliance for Museums“It is time for those of us who believe in the concept of social justice to find our voice, collectively. This is what SJAM is all about.” The Social Justice Alliance for Museums is led by the National Museums Liverpool and believes…
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Tune in: Museums as Healers
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Read more: Tune in: Museums as HealersMuseums can be havens in troubling times. Friday, June 6, at 10 am EDT/7 am PDT, Rainey Tisdale discusses her experience as the curator for #BostonBetter, and how museums can respond nimbly, creatively and compassionately to the needs of their…
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Seeing Myself Where I Didn’t Used to Be: A Reflection on Empathy in the Museum
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Read more: Seeing Myself Where I Didn’t Used to Be: A Reflection on Empathy in the Museum(now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened) –e. e. cummingsRecently I have been attending an Episcopal church where there are both men and women priests. This is a new…
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Empathy
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Read more: Empathyem·pa·thy (noun): the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in…
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The Empathetic Museum: An Approach to Community Building with Janeen Bryant
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Read more: The Empathetic Museum: An Approach to Community Building with Janeen BryantIn this conversation with Edwin Rutsch, our co-founder Janeen Bryant discusses empathy as an approach to community building.
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Creating the Empathetic Museum with Gretchen Jennings
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Read more: Creating the Empathetic Museum with Gretchen JenningsIn this conversation with Edwin Rutsch, our co-founder Gretchen Jennings shares the vision for creating the Empathetic Museum and what that entails. I was thinking about institutional body language when the word empathy first occurred to me in…
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