Building a More Inclusive Museum (Session 10: Deconstructing White Space)Inclusivity of race, class and culture is a hot button topic in the museum world. As the museum world diversifies with more BIPOC entering the workforce, both as artists and art preservationists, making museums more inclusive is a prevailing question. To Dread Scott, a panelist on
Read moreAchieving Carbon Neutral Museum DesignThe majority of museums rarely have a say in what building they’re housed in, so it was aunique opportunity that the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum found itself in when BowdoinCollege, where the museum resides, announced the development of a new Center for ArcticStudies that would house their collections. The museum currently lives
Read moreCOVID: The Future of Museums and Beyond the Pandemic In a plenary session titled, “COVID: The Future of Museums and Beyond the Pandemic,” panelists shared findings of a large-scale research project. The project examined the role race and ethnicity play in cultural engagement, thus helping us see gaps or blindspots in how museum spaces miss
Read moreThe Digital Empowerment Project is excited to announce an open call for instructor applications for upcoming digital media and technology capacity-building online training programs to be held from June 2021 to January 2022. We are looking for skilled technologists with excellent online teaching skills to lead one-hour webinars. Topic Areas Module 3 (June) How to manage digital
Read moreThe Council of Regional Museum Associations officially launched their Digital Empowerment Project website: the Museum Learning Hub. The Museum Learning Hub (MLH) is a nationwide initiative organized by the six U.S. regional museum associations and dedicated to providing free, self-paced training resources for small museums. Part of the Digital Empowerment Project, the Hub provides digital media and technology capacity-building
Read moreMuseumExpert.org is the first-of-its-kind digital platform specifically serving museum professionals. Media Contact: Ellen Trappey, Co-Founder of MuseumExpert.org 601.400.2651; ellen.trappey@museumexpert.org Washington, DC – November 20, 2020- MuseumExpert.org, a new, free to use, online platform designed to connect unemployed or underemployed museum professionals with prospective employers and freelance opportunities, launched today from its headquarters in Washington, DC. Supported by
Read more2021’s Symposium will be a virtual experience. Due to the uncertainty of how COVID-19 will progress through the remainder of 2020 and into the new year, the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums, the Building Museums Planning Committee and the Staff of MAAM made the decision to move our 2021 Building Museums™
Read moreHear from museum professionals and other academics about race and how to create a more diverse and welcoming workplace. This is a unique opportunity to engage in this important conversation with professionals who are working to seriously and creatively address the ongoing challenges facing museums today. Each session will address a specific topic and aspect of the discussion. It
Read moreMAAM welcomes Aurora Payments as a new Corporate Member! Aurora Payments is a leading payments technology and software provider whose mission is to help businesses grow through offering the lowest credit card processing rates and the most advanced payments technology for increased efficiency and productivity. Aurora continues to drive forward with strategic advancements in technology
Read moreMAAM knows that part of our goal of fostering excellence in the museum field includes demanding that museum professionals and institutions do better. We can do better by leveraging positions of privilege to help our most vulnerable colleagues and visitors. We can do better by being anti-racist. We can better support our colleagues of color.
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