Here at the Tsongas Industrial History Center, we run week-long summer day camps every year. While we are continuing with our three popular camps, we're compelled to change the organizational structure around them. Does anyone have suggestions for resources about leadership and planning strategies for day camps? If you operate a summer camp as part of your museum or institution, would you be willing to chat? Thanks for any suggestions! *Oren Bendavid-Val* /Museum Education Supervisor/ TSONGAS INDUSTRIAL HISTORY CE ...Continue Reading

Good afternoon,  We are a small house museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. We offer free field trips to any of the schools in the school district and a reduced rate for those not in the district. We are also lucky enough to have a dedicated staff member for field trips (me) and a pretty vibrant, active volunteer group that also docent the field trips.  Tanya Tanya M. Schmidt, MSEd (she/her) Education Coordinator Oshkosh Public Museum P: 920.236.5764 Connect: Facebook| Instagram| Web *From:* ...Continue Reading

Dear Museum Ed Colleagues,There is 1 week left to register  for the unique, virtual course CME, Training Our Eyes, Minds, and Hearts: Visual Thinking Strategies for Health Care Professionals, offered through Harvard Medical School Postgraduate Medical Education. We welcome all clinicians (physicians, nurses, psychologists, technicians), medical students, medical educators, healthcare researchers, healthcare leaders, healthcare professionals of all stripes, and museum educators—anyone motivated to develop ...Continue Reading

Hi Ryan, Greetings from Rochester! Yes, we waive admission cost for all Title I schools, asking them to indicate on their online reservation form. While we don't by default pay for buses, we do advertise having a bus fund to cover, so the teacher or school needs to request that from us. We eat the cost of the admission internally, but for our bus find we reached out to a local granting agency interested in supporting arts access to help us with that. It's not in perpetuity, so I'll probably have to apply agai ...Continue Reading

Hello Ryan-Greetings from Pennsylvania. We are a small science and arts center. We recently reviewed our policy around Title I discounts. We market the discount as STEM Scholarships, and any school building receiving Title I funding gets the discounted rate.  We obtain a list from the State Dept of Ed listing schools that receive Title I funds rather than just Title I eligibility (40% or more EOF).  There is not a separate application. We do have some l ...Continue Reading

Greetings! The Wadsworth is currently installing a glass and light work with profanity front and center. It eye-catching, visually compelling and will be impossible for visitors to miss as they go through the museum. I'm hoping to crowd source any information folks use in the context of school tours. Does anyone have a resource for how to address questions from students about profanity and language in artwork that is often considered taboo? There is a lot out there for addressing nudity in art and the nude/naked disc ...Continue Reading

Hi Ryan,At the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX, our Art Access program provides free admission for all Title I school students. If they want to add an art-making workshop on top of their guided gallery experience, we do charge the regular $3/student but are sometimes able to waive this. The program also provides reimbursement for bus transportation, up to $200/bus. This year we are also hoping to help provide reimbursement for substitute teacher costs for Title I schools (for subs who have to come in when othe ...Continue Reading

Hello Museum Educators,I’m reaching out to see how other museums are approaching field trips and school group admission for Title I schools.At the Tampa Bay History Center, we’re currently exploring how we can best support schools with significant financial need while also balancing the costs associated with staffing, programming, and hosting school groups.I’d love to hear from other museum educators about your current practices, particularly:[*]Do you offer free or reduced admission for Title I schools? [*]If so, ...Continue Reading

Have you ever wanted to know how to develop a traveling exhibition? If so, Creating Successful Traveling Exhibitions is for you. This class will be focused on providing you with the nuts and bolts on how to develop and tour traveling exhibitions. We will be delving into all stages of the traveling exhibit development process and tips and strategies will be provided to build sustainable frameworks for these types of exhibitions. Join Instructor Saul Sopoci Drake for this 4 week online professional development co ...Continue Reading

It will likely not be posted in full. There may be an edited summary or only specific portions of the day.  Kelly Jane Smith-Fatten Resource Project Manager Pardon my brevity while emailing via iPhone.  *From:* talk@museum-ed.org <talk@museum-ed.org> on behalf of Joni Back-Bubenzer jback-bubenzer@eiteljorg.com [talk at museum-ed.org] <talk@museum-ed.org> *Sent:* Wednesday, 23 September 2026 05:52:06 *To:* talk at museum-ed.org <talk@museum-ed.org> *Subject:* RE: [talk] Arts education event ...Continue Reading