What We’re Reading: Brown Girls Museum Blog and The Washington Post

What We’re Reading: Brown Girls Museum Blog and The Washington Post

Today’s post comes to you from Sally Meyer, current Tufts Museum Studies and History M. A. candidate. To read some of her other work for the blog, click here. Brown Girls Museum Blog: Amanda Figueroa and Ravon Ruffin are consultants in the museum field. Together, they started the 

Museums and Rural Schools

Museums and Rural Schools

Today’s post comes to you from Andrea Woodberry, current Tufts Museum Education M.A. candidate. What happens when common hurdles to K-12 museum visits, such as budget and time constraints, are combined with the significant physical barrier of hundreds of miles? How can schools located in rural 

Call for Posters: 2017 Visitor Studies Association Conference

Call for Posters: 2017 Visitor Studies Association Conference

Call for Posters 2017 Visitor Studies Association Conference New Pathways in Visitor Studies July 18-22, 2016 Westin Columbus 310 S. High Street, Columbus, OH 43215 What is the Poster Session? The poster session is an interactive and collegial format for displaying and discussing project‐based work 

The Decorative Arts Trust 2017 Summer Research Grants

The Decorative Arts Trust 2017 Summer Research Grants

The Decorative Arts Trust is accepting applications for our 2017 Summer Research Grants. This arm of the Trust’s Emerging Scholars Program provides support for graduate students working on a Master’s thesis or PhD dissertation in a field related to the decorative arts. More information, as well as descriptions 

The Things I’ve Learned During a Year of Membership

The Things I’ve Learned During a Year of Membership

Today’s post comes to you from Gina Parente, graduate of the Tufts Museum Education Masters Program and Membership Manager at the New England Aquarium. The Things I’ve Learned During a Year of Membership After spending six years in the Education Department of the New England Aquarium, it was 

Meeting the Standard: The High Stakes of Shifting Practice

Meeting the Standard: The High Stakes of Shifting Practice

Today’s post comes to you from Sally Meyer, current Tufts Museum Studies and History M. A. candidate. To read her other work for the blog, click here. Education in the United States has become more than the imparting of knowledge onto the country’s young people. In a