Every five years Museum-Ed surveys the field of art museum educational programming in the U.S. and Europe. This survey is the third in 15 years, and tracks changes in art museum educational programming over time. Be a part of this historic survey and tell us about educational programming in your museum. …
Oh, Kris. What a tepid invite to what will surely be the Party of the Century!! I mean, yes, technically this is a fundraiser to support all of the tremendous benefits Museum-Ed offers to its subscribers daily for FREE. And true, all funds will go towards sustaining and improving all …
A Guest Blog by AAM Museum-Ed Tech Mobber Dave Schaller I went to the Museum of Jurassic Technology on an AAM “On-Site Insight” field trip. I know that many, many words have been written about the museum. I must hav e read a few of them sometime ago, since I …
A second business meeting for the Museum Education Division was held Friday night, led by Lesley Wellman and Anne Manning. Fourteen division members attended. Note: remember to look for these sessions under a new name next year: “Conversations with Colleagues.” The conversation began with a quick recap of business meeting …
We need to push NAEA to aggressively embrace technology, starting next year. Or to get it to acknowledge it can no longer ignore this basic communication requirement of our age. At the very least, the organization needs to make Internet access available for presentations and for live, networked feedback and …
Check it out – it’s a like a social networking group, but for professional working groups (or teacher-museum groups, etc….). It’s much easier to organize files, collaboratively write/edit documents all in one place, and archive discussion threads. Most importantly, individual users can choose how they want to receive content and …
Every year, the Museum Education Division holds two business meetings at the NAEA conference. These meetings are a great way to reflect on the events of the conference and begin planning for the next year’s preconference and issues forum sessions. Business meetings provide an opportunity for all voices to be …
Who’s learning in American museums? What are they learning? You may be interested to know that MUSEUM EDUCATION MONITOR (MEM), the monthly e-newsletter that I edit, is compiling a list of ongoing research or evaluation projects related to museum learning for our upcoming December 2007 issue. If you wish to …