Welcome to the fourth Museums in the News roundup. Big news for this week is that the US House of Representatives has confirmed the IMLS re-authorization. We wrote about the Senate’s approval of the IMLS re-authorization here. Learn more about the House re-authorization, as well …
At a panel at NEMA focused on emerging museum directors and professionals, one of the topics that the audience felt they had trouble finding resources about was finances. I’ve just discovered that the American Association for State & Local History has put together a really …
I know, I’m all about the free online learning lately, but – there are so many quality resources out there to help museum professionals that I can’t restrain myself.
Shaping Outcomes, in their own words:
- Provides an online curriculum in outcomes-based planning and evaluation (OBPE)
- Is designed for library and museum professionals as well as students in those fields
- Teaches the concepts and vocabulary of outcomes-based planning and evaluation (OBPE)
- Helps participants develop the skills necessary for producing a logic model using OBPE
- Was developed as a cooperative project between the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Shaping Outcomes can be used as:
- A self-paced online tutorial
- An instructor-mediated distance learning course
- A curriculum for library science and museum studies classes
- The basis for in-person or distance learning workshops
Museums are in trouble. That’s not news to anyone in the field right now. We need big ideas to take us forward into this next century – we need to reimagine what we’re doing, and why, and how. Your guess is as good as mine …
Welcome to the third week of Museums in the News! Highlight this week is the lawsuit filed by Chuck Kortlander, director & owner of the Custer Battlefield Museum. Apparently in 2005 and 2008 his home, business, and the museum were raided by two dozen armed …
Have you ever been to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s After Hours program for tasty cocktails, fabulous art, and interesting conversation?
What are you waiting for?
This Thursday, December 16, the Gardner will be hosting its last Gardner After Hours until after their new wing opens in 2012.
Students get in for $5 with ID, and rumor has it that the Fall 2010 members of ED280, Museum Education and Interpretation, will be crashing the party to see their fearless leader, Jen DePrizio (also known as Director of Visitor Learning at the Gardner) in action.
Care to join? Get your tickets today!