SPRING 2017 VIRTUAL SPECIAL ISSUE
Guest Editors: Vivian Haga and Naomi Ostwald Kawamura

In thinking about MER’s strategic goals, the upcoming 2017 AAM conference and what is relevant to museum professionals, we are excited to offer a virtual issue that highlights our past articles as it relates to the AAM conference theme “Gateways for Understanding: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion in Museums.”

We write this as two museum professionals, colleagues, and MER Board members. Beyond this, we write this as two Asian-American women, children of immigrants, and both now experiencing life as new immigrants (Vivian in Japan and Naomi in Canada). The outsider experience is one that we both navigate and one that we both feel has relevance to the interrelated issues of diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion. We brought this experience forward as we made our selection of articles for this Special Issue.

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Year	Article Title	Authors
2016	Museums as Contexts for Transformative Experiences and Identity Development	Joanna K. Garner
2016	Engaging Children with Autism at Historic Sites: Developing an Audience-appropriate Curriculum	Ansel Lurio
2016	Engaging the d/Deaf Audience in Museums: A Case Study at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum	Patricia Roque Martins
2016	Impacts of Art Museum-based Dementia Programming on Participating Care Partners	Katherine L. Lamar & Jessica J. Luke
2016	Museum Education for Children with Disabilities: Development of the Nature Senses Traveling Trunk	Hyojung Cho & Anna Jolley
2016	Art in the Moment: Evaluating a Therapeutic Wellness Program for People with Dementia and their Care Partners	Lucas Livingston, Gerri Fiterman Persin & Deborah Del Signore
2016	Healing and Empowering Veterans in a Botanic Garden	Barbara Kreski
2016	Accommodating Blind Learners Helps All Learners	Mary Ann Wojton, Joe Heimlich & Natalie Shaheen
2015	Building Connections: Strategies to Address Rurality and Accessibility Challenges	Sara Hartman & Jennifer Hines-Bergmeier
2014	Youth Empowerment and Contemporary Art: Where Are We Now?	Danielle Linzer
2014	Teens, New Media and Contemporary Art: Expanding Authority in the Museum Context	Ryan Hill & Joe Douillette
2015	Reel Teens, Real Tours: Teen Engagement Strategies for the One-Time Visit	Krista Dahl Kusama & Gabrielle Wyrick
2009	Beginning with Change: Resources for Building Diversity in Museums	Tara Turner
2015	The Arab American Museum: Cultural Competency Training in Post-9/11 America	Janice Ann Freij
2002	Listening to the Voices in Our Communities	Kim Igoe & Alexandra Marmion Roosa
1999	Crafting Community-Based Museum Experiences: Process, Pedagogy, and Performance	Katheryn E. Wilson
2015	Before We Were Us, We Were Them: Curating Controversy	Keri Watson