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Expanding Access: Learn About Museums for All
Are you interested in learning more about Museums for All, an initiative dedicated to expanding community access for underserved audiences? Join staff from the Association of Children’s Museums via this recorded webinar learn more about how and why over 1500 museums of all kinds participate in the program.
Link to watch: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/Gw6TTWcLyyCZUFMbnWPgcW8AJ1PyYoGRb-ONrjzWdz-381-szH75WKfhGVWEzCyr.UoKp5gi-s4yLoHR8
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Access the recording here.
MAAM presented a series of conversations for museum professionals about race in collaboration with the Cooperstown Graduate Program
Click here to view the PDF Flyer with full session descriptions and speaker bios for this program.
Has This Been Sanitized?
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM Eastern
After months of Covid-19 closure, museums are having to dramatically modify operations. Onsite visitation objectives are upended. Hygiene issues are at the fore of whether and how to provide visitor-interpretation via audio devices, kiosks and other in-gallery interactives. Institutional audiences are growing digitally and this new paradigm deeply impacts accessibility – all of this while the United States approaches an election season!
Creating Digital Field Trips and Virtual Education Content
With the closure of schools and the cancellation of museum field trips, sharing digital education content is more important than ever. You’ll see examples of the different types of educational content and how two organizations created digital field trips for educators, parents, and students during this crisis. There will also be time at the end for Q&A to brainstorm ideas or ask questions about building great digital education experiences.
VAMONDE created the digital conference guide for Building Museums™ 2020 in Chicago
Date: Wednesday, April 22nd
Time: 1:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Members can access the Webinar Recording on our Resource Library
From Deep to Hyper Attention, and Back
In the past decades, we have developed into able multi-taskers. With the virus forcing us to multitask largely in one place for the foreseeable future, many of us are becoming much more aware of this than usual. So much so that in some cases it makes us slightly uncomfortable. Yes, we want to read that book, make that puzzle, or simply watch our rice cook, but can we still focus?
Over the past half year, David van der Leer, consultant and principal of DVDL DD, and Sarah Williams, director of MIT’s Civic Design Data Lab, researched what has happened to our attention spans and what this could mean for cultural institutions in the future. Joined by Niki Stewart, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, the three will walk us through the research and real world applications. They found that despite the recent claims that the average human attention span has shortened, evidence actually indicates that the ways in which we pay attention, rather than the overall attention span, has changed. Join in to contribute to the conversation and find out how this impacts cultural institutions.
David van der Leer is a MAAM member.
Date: Thursday, April 23rd
Members can access the Webinar Recording on our Resource Library
The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums presented, “Creativity & Collaboration: Transforming the Historic Penn Museum”. This case study was recently presented at Building Museums™ 2020 in Chicago earlier in March. Presenters have graciously decided to share this as FREE online webinar to the first 100 participants to register.
In 2017, the Penn Museum began a three-phase project to renovate two of its six wings, restore original features of the more than century-old building, add important visitor amenities, and upgrade the MEP and structural systems—while remaining open with a full range of programming. Attendees will take away valuable lessons from the team’s on-the- ground experience and how it met challenges (and surprises) with architectural vision, creative engineering design, use of cutting-edge technology, and collaboration.
Moderator: Philip C. Steiner, P.E. Managing Director, Managing Director, Altieri, Norwalk, CT
Speakers: Brian J. Houghton, Chief Building Engineer, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum), Philadelphia, PA; Perry Whidden, AIA, Principal, Gluckman Tang Architects, New York, NY; David Artigas, P.E. LEED AP, Senior Project Manager, SIMPSON GUMPERTZ & HEGER, New York, NY
Hosted on Apr 1, 2020 12:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Members can access the Webinar Recording on our Resource Library