We couldn't do the work we do without the time, talent, and treasure from our awesome board members. Megan Schoettmer from PNC recently joined our board of directors, bringing her financial and governance expertise to the current distinguished roster of directors from a variety of industries and backgrounds. Welcome Megan Schoettmer! https://lnkd.in/gRzJpjG4
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Our $1 million investment in the museum community sparked a lot of change in 2023, including updates to help you better navigate and find resources that matter most to you and form deeper connections in the museum field! Here's some of what's changed in 2023: 📚 The new AAM Resource Library: We launched a redesigned library of thousands of resources, with new functions to help you find the guides, articles, and tools you need and the inspiration you want. We published 184 new resources, blog posts, and articles this year, powered by the thought leadership of museum professionals like you. 🌐 Museum Junction Upgrade: The vibrant online hub of more than 60,000 museum professionals got a major facelift, with a more interactive experience, easy-to-navigate feed, and over a dozen new peer communities to find the discussions that matter most to you. 🚀 Future of Museums Summit: We hosted this inaugural, virtual summit in November focusing on professional development and key issues for museums to face the future, like rapid digital evolutions and repatriation practices. Learn more about these changes and what's to come, or share your feedback here: https://lnkd.in/eSbXi5qP
Updates on AAM's $1 Million Investment in the Museum Community
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People from museums and cultural institutions: do you do work that is focused on racial justice? Are you looking to connect with other organizations who prioritize race issues? Are you trying to spend a few days (on someone else’s dime) learning some tools and frameworks to help push the work along? Would you be interested in applying for mini-grants to activate those workshop learnings? Come to the Museums Advancing Racial Justice Convening at SMM! Up to 25 institutions who apply will have their expenses covered to attend this awesome gathering. I’ve been hustling with internal colleagues and external partners at the Smithsonian Institution and beyond to help bring this Convening into the world. In April 2024, it’s finally happening. As part of the Smithsonian’s Our Shared Future: Reckoning With Our Racial Past initiative, this event will help create networks, deepen learning, introduce tools, and actively fund continuing work. Focused on internal systems change, program development, and community engagement, there should be a little bit of something for everyone. Hit me up with any questions, or check out the FAQ on our website.
Announcing Museums Advancing Racial Justice convening As gathering places for conversation and exploration within our communities, museums are an important part of America’s cultural fabric. As part of its Our Shared Future: Reckoning with our Racial Past initiative, the Smithsonian Institution has partnered with the Science Museum of Minnesota to host and facilitate Museums Advancing Racial Justice, a three-day convening for professionals in the museum and cultural institution community, in April 2024. Held at the Science Museum of Minnesota in Saint Paul, this action-oriented and collaborative event will empower participants to embark upon the initial steps of in-depth workshops centered on policy, programming, and community engagement. #race #racialjustice #museums #Museumprogramming #smithsonian #blackhistory Smithsonian Institution Link to learn more and register:
Museums Advancing Racial Justice | Science Museum of Minnesota
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As we bid adieu to 2023, our hearts are filled not just with pride for the milestones, triumphs and lessons of the past year, but with profound gratitude for the community that breathes life into our shared vision. It's the exceptional contributions of our team, clients, supporters, and followers that shape our narrative. In a world that often reinvents itself with every New Year's resolution, we find ourselves blessed to witness more and more forward-thinking individuals and institutions joining our unique quest. Thank you for being an integral part of our story. We stand on the threshold of a new chapter, where innovation and boundless possibilities await. Wishing everyone a joyous New Year!
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Museums have institutional goals and priorities; Data show that younger people don't share those goals and priorities. This poses a challenge for museums: To what degree are museums' metrics for success actually undermining their ability to support and connect with younger audiences? How can cultural organizations close the gap between their goals and what younger audiences need and want? These are a few of the challenging questions that Caroline Klibanoff and her team at Made By Us are addressing with their coalition partners. Please join us on May 23rd for "Closing the Goal Gap for Gen Z". https://lnkd.in/eTWbm3GY
Made By Us: Closing the Goal Gap for Gen Z with Caroline Kilbanoff
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Creating, cultivating, and connecting people, ideas, and spaces for all to have access, inclusion, and a sense of belonging
A staggering 35% of museum educators lost or had significant change to their positions in 2020 during the Pandemic. Additionally, 67% of museums had budget cuts to their education departments. I was one of these professionals deeply impacted because I was told to lay off my education department of 12 and then I was laid off as Vice President of Learning Experiences. Luckily, I pivoted and returned to obtain my Ph.D. and am doing research with kids and families. But my question for the museum field is “if education is at the center of your work because you want to make an impact with communities, why drop the people that do this important work?” Going forward, museums need to monetarily value educators. Highly skilled, well-educated museum educators deserve more than than low wages and (worse yet) being laid off. The system needs to fund people, not just projects.
Equity advocate, museum content strategist, burnout dodger at The Corning Museum of Glass
The day I started my job as an outreach coordinator for The Dallas Museum of Art in the early 1990s I ran across two AAM reports in my cubicle: The Uncertain Profession: Educators in American Art Museums (Dobbs, 1987) and Excellence and Equity: Education and the Public Dimension of Museums (AAM, 1992). Both gave me a clear eyed view of the field I’d recently committed to (committing to a field sounds a bit monastic and short-sighted to me now, but it wasn’t so unusual then). It’s thirty years later. The depressing news found in the first report and the ideals expressed in the latter are still playing themselves out in museums. One thing is sure though. The pandemic stripped away any pretense individual museums (directors, boards) were propping up with regard to the value of museum education. It’s good to have the departure data more clearly detailed. Thanks, Kera. The wisest decisions are made in light of the best quality information. I’m grateful that my situation has stayed relatively stable during the pandemic, but at this point I should probably let go of the hope that museum education will ever be a certain profession. Call it GenX pessimism if you want, but I still advise planning accordingly. To their credit, most of my colleagues entering the field these days already do.
The Significant Loss of Museum Educators in 2020: A Data Story
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The problem with museums isn’t the inauthentic commitment to education, it’s the reality that this whole museum “education” paradigm is fatally flawed. People don’t go to museums to “learn,” they go to experience, share, and FEEL. When more museums understand the public’s psychological needs and desires better, education can still occur but in a very different environment than traditional, objective education demands. The ramification of this is that museums need more social scientists, not historians. See Laurajane Smith‘s recent book on this very topic: https://lnkd.in/ghZpZCnc
Equity advocate, museum content strategist, burnout dodger at The Corning Museum of Glass
The day I started my job as an outreach coordinator for The Dallas Museum of Art in the early 1990s I ran across two AAM reports in my cubicle: The Uncertain Profession: Educators in American Art Museums (Dobbs, 1987) and Excellence and Equity: Education and the Public Dimension of Museums (AAM, 1992). Both gave me a clear eyed view of the field I’d recently committed to (committing to a field sounds a bit monastic and short-sighted to me now, but it wasn’t so unusual then). It’s thirty years later. The depressing news found in the first report and the ideals expressed in the latter are still playing themselves out in museums. One thing is sure though. The pandemic stripped away any pretense individual museums (directors, boards) were propping up with regard to the value of museum education. It’s good to have the departure data more clearly detailed. Thanks, Kera. The wisest decisions are made in light of the best quality information. I’m grateful that my situation has stayed relatively stable during the pandemic, but at this point I should probably let go of the hope that museum education will ever be a certain profession. Call it GenX pessimism if you want, but I still advise planning accordingly. To their credit, most of my colleagues entering the field these days already do.
The Significant Loss of Museum Educators in 2020: A Data Story
tandfonline.com
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What is one way museums can become more visitor-centered? Easy answer: integrate evaluation into your exhibition design process! 👇
Whether done early in the design process or midway through, testing and prototyping your ideas with audiences has a range of benefits. It can help you shape an experience’s initial tone and direction, understand your audiences’ baseline, and tweak the important details so you can be confident audiences will have the transformational experiences you intend. We absolutely love partnering with design firms to lead audience testing, like we did on these awesome projects: -Helping The Design Minds, Inc. test new exhibits and interpretation for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial: https://lnkd.in/eQHD7Chb -Leading iterative rounds of audience evaluation to help Ralph Appelbaum Associates (RAA) and PGAV Destinations shape experiences for the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution's transformation: https://lnkd.in/ea3RUiMB -Helping Luci Creative shape a community-focused history exhibition for North Carolina Museum of History https://lnkd.in/e3dEGgWK -Prototyping HealyKohler Design’s exhibit designs with visitors for a new National Park Service visitor center: https://lnkd.in/eg_czXMV Visit our Experience Design Research page to learn more about how we can support you in designing audience-centered experiences ⬇️
Experience Design Research — Kera Collective
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Three years of guiding visions to reality! 🌟 On our third anniversary, we celebrate the trust and partnership of our clients, the dedication of our team, and the support of our community. Your dreams inspire our mission to provide expert advice and innovative solutions. Here's to continuing our journey together, building not just success, but lasting relationships. #Rizin #Rizinadvisory #Reality #RIZIN3YearsStrong #MoreThanAdvice #anniversary #TrustedAdvisors #RealEstateExperts #VisionToReality #ClientFirst #AnniversaryCelebration
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Dive into our primer to explore some of the nuanced perspectives on inclusion among museum-goers. Created in collaboration with Wilkening Consulting, this resource offers extensive research on public sentiment to help museum professionals use data-driven insights to form a deeper understanding of audience attitudes. It can be used to help discuss and encourage inclusivity in museums, and cultivate curiosity and empathy to effect societal change, while maintaining and broadening museum audiences. Download your free copy of the primer today to explore these insights! https://lnkd.in/eQFAZxjA
Audiences and Inclusion: A Primer for Cultivating More Inclusive Attitudes Among the Public
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