In the wake of this year’s presidential election, the 2016 New England Museum Association Conference was “the best cure for a political hangover,” as NEMA Executive Director Dan Yaeger put it. This year’s theme, “Plug In: Museums and Social Action,” seemed even more pertinent than …
Today’s post comes to you from Sally Meyer, current Tufts Museum Studies and History M. A. candidate. In a blog post titled “The Weird Complicated Sexist History of Pockets,” Rachel Lubitz says that a lack of enough space to hold objects is something women have suffered through …
The Visitor Studies Association (VSA) seeks proposals for session presentations and workshops for the 2017 conference in Columbus, OHJuly 18-22. VSA seeks to foster a sense of community among its members, who gather once a year to pose intriguing questions, explore diverse opinions, debate controversial …
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Today’s “What We’re Reading” post comes to you from Cynthia Robinson, director of the Tufts Museum Studies program. Cynthia Robinson Museum Studies Director, Tufts University Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Museum Education Originally posted on JME40 (http://museumeducation.info/jme40), a blog celebrating 40 years of the Journal of Museum …