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Reflecting on the Learning Power of Conversation in Museums
“Talking in museums is one of the things that makes them matter, and the way in which we talk in museums is one of the things that define for us what they are.” – Adam Gopnik Over the past 20 years,...
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Teaching #Ferguson: Connecting with Resources
In light of recent events concerning the situation in Ferguson, Missouri, and the ongoing protests, conversations, debates, arguments, emotional outpourings, and moments for learning that are occurring...
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Status Update: Facebook as a Reflection Tool
Written by David Bowles, Assistant Museum Educator for School Programs, Metropolitan Museum of Art Cross-posted with Museum Questions, a blog authored by Rebecca Herz that is dedicated to questions...
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Have Conversations Here: Supporting Productive Dialogue in Museums
Written by Mike Murawski Throughout this summer, I have been thinking quite a bit about how museums respond to the events going on in the world around us as well as in our own communities (especially...
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From the Radio to the Museum: Storytelling, Listening, and Radical Empathy
Written by Beth Maloney What can museums learn from approaches, models, and practices in other fields? How are we continuing to frame and define empathy and relevance in museum programming? Are we...
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Shifting the Focus of Docent Training Toward Social Discourse
Written by Andrew Palamara Earlier this year, I started a series of in-gallery workshop sessions for docents at the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) as a complement to their lecture-based training. The...
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Gallery Teaching Lab: Where Rules Are Meant to Be Broken
Written by Theresa Sotto What would happen in the galleries if we could only communicate through gestures? How might critics’ reviews about exhibitions be meaningfully incorporated in gallery teaching?...
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It’s Okay to Turn Our Back on the Art
Written by Holly Gillette as part of the Gallery Teaching Lab series As an art museum educator, it is imperative to always connect back to the art in our teaching. Or is it? I follow a dialogical...
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Leading Voices – Past, Present, and Future
Written by Jessica Kay Ruhle “By looking at the art we can talk about topics that people don’t usually like to talk about.” – Rumaisha Tasnim “Each viewer sees the art. What you see in it is your...
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Inviting Intimate Conversations on Our Fears and Anxieties about the Future
Written by Justina Barrett, Catherine Ricketts, Greg Stuart, and Alicia Valencia At the Philadelphia Museum of Art during this moment of unprecedented change in the face of the COVID-19, we’ve been...
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