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Looking Back, Moving Forward in Museum Education Blog
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December 21, 2023 A lot has happened this year. While I have not been posting as much since being promoted to the role of Education Coordinator at Three Village Historical Society, I have regularly posted about my experiences as Education Coordinator and other adventures on the blog’s Instagram page. I shared pictures from the MANY ..read more
Looking Back, Moving Forward in Museum Education Blog
1y ago
March 9, 2023 I chose to explore The Morgan Library & Museum, a museum and an independent research library in New York City. The Morgan Library & Museum began as the personal library of financier, collector, and cultural benefactor Pierpont Morgan who started to assemble a collection of illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts, early printed ..read more
Looking Back, Moving Forward in Museum Education Blog
2y ago
October 20, 2022 Halloween is just around the corner! And today is my birthday. In honor of both Halloween and my birthday, I have compiled a list of things happening for Halloween this year at museums and historic sites. The list will include some locations in the United States and some locations in Europe. It ..read more
Looking Back, Moving Forward in Museum Education Blog
2y ago
April 14, 2022 We have a tie! Both of them will be discussed in the next couple of Museum/Historic Sites Impressions blog posts. I would like to know between the two of them which one would you like to learn more about first? Be sure to answer the poll below. Thank you! Poll closes May ..read more
Looking Back, Moving Forward in Museum Education Blog
2y ago
March 24, 2022 The poll will close at 11:59pm (EST) on April 7th ..read more
Looking Back, Moving Forward in Museum Education Blog
2y ago
March 3, 2022 Thank you to all of those who responded to the second poll I released. The one that had the most votes was the Tower of London in London, England. A little while back I saw a couple of documentaries about the Tower of London on Netflix and the Tower’s history has fascinated ..read more
Looking Back, Moving Forward in Museum Education Blog
2y ago
February 10, 2022 Valentine’s Day is on a Monday this year and it is important to understand that while it seems like a more commercial-founded holiday this holiday actually has historical roots. I decided to take a closer look into the history of Valentine’s Day. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the true origins of the ..read more
Looking Back, Moving Forward in Museum Education Blog
4y ago
June 18, 2020
While we have been facing a pandemic, this month has seen an increase of peaceful protests in response to the murders of people in the Black community including but not limited to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. In the United States, there has been continuous racist thoughts and actions that should not have been excused for the past hundreds of years. The recent peaceful protests show that we are no longer tolerating the social injustice and are urging for real change. Joan Baldwin’s post on Leadership Matters, called “The Chickens Come Home to Roost: Museum Values in Times of C ..read more
Looking Back, Moving Forward in Museum Education Blog
4y ago
June 11, 2020
Last week I participated in the American Alliance of Museums’ (AAM) first virtual conference, and I began describing my experience in last week’s blog post. I thought that this week I will not only continue to describe my experience at #AAMvirtual but will discuss the virtual conferences in general. After the first day of #AAMvirtual, I attended more sessions from June 2nd to June 4th with an additional session added to address the Black Lives Matter movement.
On June 2nd, in addition to the general session, I attended the sessions: Engagement Strategies During Times of Low (or n ..read more
Looking Back, Moving Forward in Museum Education Blog
4y ago
June 4, 2020
This past week I was able to attend the American Alliance of Museums’ (AAM) conference. Like the New York City Museum Educators Roundtable, AAM decided to hold the conference online to present content that will help move the museum field forward. The AAM virtual conference took place on May 18th, and June 1st through June 4th. Its’ theme this year was: Radical Reimagining. Since this is the first-time museum associations in the United States are holding conferences on the internet, there are bugs they would go through as multiple museum professionals interact with one another from ..read more