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How the Air and Space Museum is Using Virtual Docents

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Anyway, Project Hail Mary inspired me to take the boys to the Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum. This museum is full of all types of vehicles that fly: planes, helicopters, amphibious ships, missiles and drones. What the museum instead was probably just as good. And Jim, who was next to the SR-71.

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Forum One Wins 10 Davey Awards

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American Jazz Museum Gold – Cultural Institutions Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater.

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Museum Work

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While many American museums require 37.5 The whole issue of wages gets at the heart of the faulty systems of capitalism, the culture of women’s work, and museums as privilege-concentrating institutions. In the last twenty years, or so, professionalization has changed museum work. Not the work we do, but the ways we do that work.

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Forum One Wins 5 dotCOMM Awards!

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Endowed by Dr. This built on NMAAHC’s core design system and utilized design, illustration, motion graphics and more to engage NMAAHC’s audience and create a visual language that could excite and inspire event attendees.

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Tips for Inclusive Thanksgiving Communications: Practicing Mindfulness During the Holidays (And Beyond!)

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But for so many Native Americans, Thanksgiving has been known as National Day of Mourning since 1970. Feel free to check out the DEI style guide or use the Inclusivity Tool to expand your appreciation toward others and leverage more considerate, person-first language in your marketing and in your own life.

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Developing a Product Mindset for Impact

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Explore the March of Dimes case study Smithsonian NMAAHC’s Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal now makes more than 400,000 pages of volunteer-transcribed records and previously-unavailable data sets accessible for anyone to search.

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Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

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They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. didn't mince words. Here are my three top takeaways.

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