Category: Maturity Model
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Museums Need to Be Braver
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Read more: Museums Need to Be BraverNon-university museums could follow this model by including community members and students on their boards. Partnerships with local organizations, colleges, and universities also offer a powerful mechanism for demystifying the work of the board and bringing the public…
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Rethinking Prisonย Tourism, by Hope Corrigan
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Read more: Rethinking Prisonย Tourism, by Hope CorriganAt the end of the audio tour at Eastern State Penitentiary, a 16-foot steel sculpture called โThe Big Graphโ offers a visual representation of mass incarceration in America. It illustrates the racial breakdown of prison populations since 1970…
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Museums and Wealth – The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections
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Read more: Museums and Wealth – The Politics of Contemporary Art CollectionsA materialist description of the museum as a model institution of the liberal nation state reveals constellations of imperialist social relations. Nizan Shaked, Museums and Wealth – The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections The Empathetic Museum. [@empatheticmuseum] (June…
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Community Engagement during COVID-19 at the House of Memory Museum
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Read more: Community Engagement during COVID-19 at the House of Memory MuseumIn the last few years at global conferences, weโve been talking about how a museum canโt just be a building where people come and have an experience. Covid-19 is the opportunity to see how we can get closer…
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Public libraries leading in civic responsiveness
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Read more: Public libraries leading in civic responsivenessPublic libraries as cultural institutions continue to lead in civic responsiveness and serving their surrounding communities. Free! Brooklyn is home to some of the most diverse communities on the planet. The Peopleโs Ball is a celebration of free…
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Curator: Museum Response to War Crimes
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Read more: Curator: Museum Response to War CrimesCheck out the latest issue of Curator The Museum Journal, Volume 65, Issue S1, ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐ณ ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด April 2022, edited by John Fraser: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21516952/2022/65/S1 As editors of an international journal of museum practice and culture, we…
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Museum Education for Today’s Audience
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Read more: Museum Education for Today’s AudienceWhat a great new museum resource: Museum Education for Todayโs Audiences – Meeting Expectations for New Mode (Edited by Jason L. Porter and Mary Kay Cunningham) Todayโs museum educators are tackling urgent social issues, addressing historic inequalities of…
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Broad categories of desired change
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Read more: Broad categories of desired changeAmericans want arts and culture organizations to play in social change, perceptions of systemic racism in specific fields of arts and culture, and how digital engagement with creativity and culture has been changing as the pandemic has persisted.…
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Volunteerism & Expertise
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Read more: Volunteerism & ExpertiseI wonder if it is striking to you, as it is to me, that the subject of ending a volunteer docent program has received ample and immediate coverage by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal while…
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Report: Cultural Institutions took federal money but still let go of workers
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Read more: Report: Cultural Institutions took federal money but still let go of workersThe Philadelphia Museum of Art, which received a $5.1 million PPP loan, spent tens of thousands of dollars on a union-busting law firm to fight their workersโ organizing effort. The museum then reduced its workforce by 127 during…
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