Museum Blogging Competition
Here’s an exciting opportunity for current students (sorry alumni) to enter a competition for museum bloggers sponsored by Randi Korn & Associates. The deadline is April 1, so take some time and get your writing ready!
Recent Posts
The Wider World: Organic Collaborations
by columnist Tegan Kehoe This weekend, I went on a creative retreat of sorts, an annual event that I love. Two and a half days of intense time in a community I care about, several hundred friends and strangers in a hotel, being silly and …
Upcoming Event: Customer Service and the Museum Educator
The Greater Boston Museum Educators’ Roundtable is sponsoring a professional development event on March 13, 2014, from 1-4pm at Danforth Art.
Join colleagues for a discussion of how best
practices in customer service outside of the
museum field can be used to enhance the visitor
experience when applied cross-departmentally. A
panel including staff members from the Children’s
Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the MIT
Museum will consider the unique relationship
between museums’ Visitor Services and Education
departments and explore the benefits and
challenges of hybrid staff structures. Educators
will leave with a newfound understanding of what
a truly visitor-centered museum can look like and
practical ideas to implement at their own
institutions.
Write for AAM’s EdCom!
Current Tufts graduate student Barbara Palmer is putting out the call on behalf of AAM’s EdCom, the Alliance’s educator professional affinity group. Calling You! As your bimonthly newsletter, we want to hear from you! Want to highlight events at your museum or in your community? Is …
Science in Museums: The Circle of Life
by columnist Jenna Conversano Hi all – I’m Jenna, a new Science in Museums columnist, with a particular interest in biology, zoos, and aquariums. The “hot item” in the news last week was the euthanasia of Marius, a two year-old giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo, …
MIT’s List Art Center needs your help this Vacation Week!
Here’s the call from Campus & Community Outreach Coordinator Courtney Klemens for volunteers to help with the List Art Center’s School Vacation Week programs. Their biggest need is Wednesday morning, but the full schedule of activities is below. If you’d like to volunteer, contact Courtney at cklemens@mit.edu.
Family Week at the List
Tuesday, February 18 through Friday, February 21
Full shifts: 11 to 4 pm, or, Half-shifts: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm and 1:30 to 4:30 pm)
- Facilitate hands-on artmaking projects with children
- Create example artworks
- Help with clean up and set up
- Looking for an engaging storyteller for Wednesday Feb 19
- Free lunch!