The 2025 PHMC Keystone Summer Internship postings are here! All internships will be posted until Feb. 9, 2025. Opportunities in 10 Pennsylvania Counties. PHMC Keystone Internship Program | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [Scroll down the page, the internships are posted!] - Internships will run 10-weeks between May 12 & Aug. 22, 2025. - Interns will be paid $17 an hour. - Applicants must be enrolled at a college or university in an undergraduate or graduate program at the time of their internship. - Each location ha ...Continue Reading

Job Post: Museum Educator 2 with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Location: Erie Maritime Museum and the U.S. Brig Niagara, Erie, PA   Museum Educator 2 - Erie Maritime Museum | Job Details tab | Career Pages   As the Museum Educator 2, you will be responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating the museum’s educational and interpretive programs, ensuring they are based on primary and secondary source historical research and that they align with current museum teaching methodologi ...Continue Reading

After a busy year of attending and presenting at conferences, delivering trainings, and as the president of the Society of American Archivists, Helen Wong Smith will again lead her online professional development course Cultural Competency.  Creating organizations that are culturally competent is not an altruistic wish, but rather a business strategy to ensure our workforce reflects, represents, and is responsive to the communities with whom we collaborate and serve and perhaps more cr ...Continue Reading

This Week In Global Museum | Celebrating 29 Years Serving The Profession | The #1 Museum Site For Museum News, Museum Jobs, Museum Resources & More! http://www.globalmuseum.org.**  Caravaggio Painting, Unseen for Decades, Goes on DisplayA portrait by the artist had a public debut in Rome on Friday, after decades hidden away in a private collection. Now Italy wants to buy it.**  An Astonishing, Rarely Seen Islamic Art Collection Goes on DisplayAt the oldest public art museum in the United St ...Continue Reading

We use this amplivox system for our walking tours with pretty good success. Most guides wear the mic around their necks and bend the mic closer to the their mouths. The system strap around your waist and had fairly good sound.https://www.opticsplanet.com/amplivox-belt-blaster-personal-waistband-amplifier.html?cnxclid=17326342826810976565913601119008005Lauren HunleyWestern Heritage CenterBillings, MTOn Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 1:12?PM Claire Carlson ccarlson@historic-deerfield.org [talk at museum-ed.org] <talk@museu ...Continue Reading

What kind of museums do they cite and explore?Katie BoardmanLecturerCooperstown Graduate Program in Museum StudiesCooperstown, NY 13326607-435-4568 cellOn Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 12:10?PM Rachel Ropeik ropeik@gmail.com [talk at museum-ed.org] <talk@museum-ed.org> wrote: I really like how Porchia Moore, Rose Paquet, and Aletheia Wittman approached putting together Transforming Inclusion in Museums.??Don't know if it fills the need you've got, Truly, but it's a good example of equity in action for the colla ...Continue Reading

We use a system that sounds very similar to you.  I don’t find it particularly useful comfortable.  Some people wear the headset around their necks, some around their head, and some over the head and that flexibility might help?On Nov 25, 2024, at 15:07, Claire Carlson ccarlson@historic-deerfield.org [talk at museum-ed.org] <talk@museum-ed.org> wrote:? portable voice amplification systems for outdoor walking tours Good afternoon!We are working on upgrading our outdoor walking tour experien ...Continue Reading

Good afternoon!We are working on upgrading our outdoor walking tour experiences. We would like our guides to use a portable voice amplification system. We currently have a system that has a small speaker that you can clip to your belt or pocket or wear it around your neck. It has a headset that you wear with a mouthpiece that is connected with a wire to the speaker. Our guides find these uncomfortable and hard to use AND the sound is not great.Do any of you use any good models that work well, are user-fr ...Continue Reading

I really like how Porchia Moore, Rose Paquet, and Aletheia Wittman approached putting together Transforming Inclusion in Museums.??Don't know if it fills the need you've got, Truly, but it's a good example of equity in action for the collaborating and writing of the book, as well as the content.?Rachel S Ropeikeducator | adventurer | facilitator | experience builder | pirate ????strategic, playful, progressive approaches to catalyzing change in arts and culture~~~rachelropeik.com | @TheArtRopeik (twitte ...Continue Reading

Hi Truly, Here are a few more resources I recommend: OF/BY/FOR ALL has some free resources: https://www.ofbyforall.org/ The MASS Action Toolkit - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa685dff7c50f78be5f2b2/t/59dcdd27e5dd5b5a1b51d9d8/1507646780650/TOOLKIT_10_2017.pdf Mike Murawski’s Museums as Agents of Change - https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538108949/Museums-as-Agents-of-Change-A-Guide-to-Becoming-a-Changemaker Mike also has a an old blog (https://artmuseumteaching.com/) and a new substack (https://agents ...Continue Reading