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The Big Picture: Balancing Collections Care and Access with Project Design and Student Engagement
Professionals in arts and cultural heritage organizations, whether at large institutions or smaller ones, manage the delicate balance between utilizing collections and meeting their preservation requirements. Academic museum and gallery professionals balance the demands of collections use and care while meaningfully supporting student success. Educators practicing within these spaces call upon a dynamic skillset to engage audiences and foster opportunities … Read More
I 💚 Heart Museums 2024 Playlist
To celebrate International Museums Day, MER is revisiting a fan-favorite blog feature: the I 💚 Museums Playlist! We’ve put together another eclectic playlist that captures the wide range of emotions people feel when exploring museums. A big thank you to everyone who contributed to this list, and don’t forget to also check out the OG playlist from 2020! “You’ve … Read More
What You Leave Behind: Museum Education, Disability, and the Holocaust
Educators must be conscious of how misinformation and ableism shape presentations of disability histories. The atrocities of the Holocaust and related instances of prejudice and persecution under the Nazi regime are vital topics within education about disability history. However, the emotive and horrific nature of the subject matter may encourage educators to make generalizations about disability history. Are sensitive histories … Read More
An Annotated Bibliography: There are Different Suns
Editor’s Note: In Orlando Serrano Jr’s article, There are Different Suns, he shares animating ideas and frameworks shaping the work of making the new Center for Restorative History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The article and Serrano’s lineage of thought are broad and, importantly, shaped by many sources beyond museum or education literature alone. We asked him … Read More
MAKE AN IMPACT ON GIVING TUESDAY WITH MER!
We invite you to support the Museum Education Roundtable on Giving Tuesday! Your involvement can make a meaningful impact on the field of museum education, and there are three primary ways you can contribute. Make a Donation Donations to MER support the publication of the Journal of Museum Education (JME) and continued research in the field, encourages advocacy and leadership, … Read More
Radical Reimaginings In Museum Education
As a complement to JME 47.1: Radical Reimaginings in Museum Education, we are pleased to share this blog post by the guest editors Wendy Ng, Audrey Hudson, and Jaclyn Roessel. The calls to action and ongoing efforts to decolonize museums on Turtle Island (1), also known as North America, have been imagined, led, and sustained by Indigenous, Black, racialized and … Read More
Documenting Museum Education during Intersecting Pandemics
As a complement to JME 46.4: Snapshot: Documenting Museum Education During Intersecting Pandemics, we are pleased to share this blog post by the guest editors Paula Santos, Kimberly H. McCray, Gwendolyn Fernandez, and Amanda Thompson Rundahl. Remember when we thought the disruptions of the pandemic would last a few weeks or maybe a few months, at most? Museum educators said … Read More
Open Call for BIPOC/Historically Underrepresented Museum Voices
Do you identify as a BIPOC individual? If so, consider submitting a blog post proposal to the Museum Education Roundtable’s blog, Museum Visions, in order to continue pushing the field toward greater equity for museum professionals. Tied to the current issue of the Journal of Museum Education, this open call’s theme is “Museums & Partnerships.” This invitation is intended to … Read More