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Who are we, museums?

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Then, I get home, confined to the couch with a terrible sinus headache, to find ICOM was debating the definition of a museum. ICOM matters because museums are a global phenomenon. Over the years, I’ve enjoyed interacting with all the international museum folks at conferences, particularly at AAM. A different sort of ache began.

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Injustice In Science [Museums]

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Nina Simon, Lauren Bentua, and many others would host us in the halls of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art. I would like to share them with you, in case they resonate as something you could do and/or propose in your organization. Acknowledging your role in structural racism is a good start but not enough, what are you going to do about it?

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Guest Post: Restoration Artwork

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George Scheer is the director and co-founder of Elsewhere Collective, a fascinating "living museum" in a former thrift store in Greensboro, NC. In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it.

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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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What's Your $12,720 Idea for New Ways of Engaging with Audiences?

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They are soliciting project proposals for innovative forms of audience engagement. The strongest proposals will be wholly original and theoretically grounded. Proposals are due by February 5, 2015. Are cultural centres and museums meeting them? The theme this year is "audiences." Full set of rules (in English) here.

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Guest Post: Rearranging the Fossils - Using Museum 2.0 to Get a Stuck Innovation Process Moving Again

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This guest post was written by Ruben Huele and describes the scenario-based strategic process used at the Dutch Natural History Museum, Naturalis , to innovate the redevelopment of their permanent collection. The new building of Naturalis, the Dutch National Natural History Museum, opened in 1998.

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Guest Post: Radical Collaboration - Tools for Partnering with Community Members

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It started as a handout for a session that Stacey and I are doing at the California Association of Museums, and then I realized it was so darn useful that it was worth sharing with all of you. The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations.