Category: Timeliness & Sustainability
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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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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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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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Museums as Prescription to Cope with Pandemic-Related Stress
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Read more: Museums as Prescription to Cope with Pandemic-Related StressNumerous studies have confirmed the benefits of art in raising patientโs spirits, even when they are confined to hospitals. The World Health Organization even operates an entire program dedicated to the study and support of arts as vital…
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Civic Vision, Community Resonance, Culture of Empathy, Honor Roll, Institutional Body Language, Institutional Partnerships, Timeliness & SustainabilityHonor Roll: Erie Art Museum’s Old Songs New Opportunities
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Read more: Honor Roll: Erie Art Museum’s Old Songs New OpportunitiesThe Erie Art Museumโs โOld Songs New Opportunitiesโ program exemplifies this empathy-driven change, fostering cross-cultural connections through music and addressing community needs, emphasizing the profound, lasting impact of diversity and collaboration in enriching lives.
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IMLS Community Catalyst Initiative
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Read more: IMLS Community Catalyst InitiativeThe Community Catalyst Initiative from the Institute of Museum and Library Services aims to gather multi-disciplinary insights to create tools for museum and library staff. An upcoming Town Hall in Philadelphia will engage experts and the public to…
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Characteristics of the Empathetic Museum
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Read more: Characteristics of the Empathetic Museum1. Civic vision:the imagination to see the institution as a part of and not apart from the larger community, a player with status and responsibilities in the civic arena. Evidence: In addition to links with other area cultural…
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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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Tune in: Museums as Healers
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Read more: Tune in: Museums as HealersMuseums can be havens in troubling times. โ 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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