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Self Care in the Museum Workplace

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The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. Questions. We’d love to share.

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Introducing Community Participation Bootcamp at the MAH

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For the past five years, each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has hosted MuseumCamp. Come share your projects, challenges, questions, wild successes and epic failures with creative changemakers from around the world. And it's not just for museum people. Registration is first come, first served.

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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

Museum 2.0

That's the question we've been grappling with as we start the OF/BY/FOR ALL initiative. The First Wave includes 6 museums, 5 performing arts organizations, 3 public libraries, 3 parks, and 3 community centers. How do you build a movement for institutional change? Half are led by people of color or indigenous people.

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. CA: One of the best things that happened to me while volunteering for the local art museum is they funded my travel to Los Angeles and my tuition to take the week-long grant writing training bootcamp hosted by The Grantsmanship Center.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Tracking In-Kind Donations for Nonprofits

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For example, if a company donates a bunch of laptops, and the organization chooses to use them, they receive continued benefits from those laptops. This will be helpful if there are questions later. They’d likely be more valuable than a donation of laptops the organization intends to sell.

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Khan Academy and the Revolution in Online Free Choice Learning

Museum 2.0

But Vi doesn't work in a science museum. Its funding has skyrocketed as major foundations and technology companies have made multi-million dollar grants and investments in its growth. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who are well known in museums for their excellent Smarthistory website and podcasts. the way the best museums do.

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User Experience Design Patterns from the Yahoo! Library

Museum 2.0

When you design a new interactive, talkback station, or traditional exhibit for your museum, what best practices and design requirements do you consult? Museums don't have a well-developed body of industry-wide best practices. The solution is a design pattern library, a place where Yahoo! Do you use classic books?

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