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Museum creating Garden to Feed the Homeless

Here is a NPR trascript of interview about Phillbrook Museum of Art electing to turn part of its formal garden into a food growing garden for a food kitch

Marian Godfrey Gardner's paper "Whose Revolution is it Anyway?"

Marian Godfrey Gardner is the longtime director of cultural programs for the Pew Charitable  Trust.  The whole museum field has her and the Pew Foundation to thank for agreeing to un

The Client Centered Structure of the Children's Museum, Boston in the Art Museum As Educator

Council on Museums and Education in the Visual Arts., Barbara Y. Newsom, and Adele Z. Silver. The Art Museum as Educator : A Collection of Studies as Guides to Practice and Policy.

A conversation on Museum 3.0 about museums and social service

Museum 3.0 has been hosted in the past by Lynda Kelly and Agelina Russo in Australia.  Museum 3.0 is a blog worth reading.

The Tang Conference April 2006: A panel discussion of the University Museum

Lisa Curran, Doren Ross, Fred Wilson and I spoke about university art museums from different perspectives. The panel discussion is attached.

The Vanity Museum, a consideration

VANITY MUSEUMSAN AMBIVILENT CONSIDERATION

January 2010

Free At Last (AAM version)

The article “Free at Last” appeared in Museum News in 2005.  The article espouses free entrance without mandatory admission as necessary for welcoming more and more diverse visitors

George Hein's slide package on Museum's as Education and Museum Education

George Hein has spent an academic lifetime focused on learning in museums and its relationship to learning theory.  This slide package allows students and museum staff to understand the educat

Michael Jackson in The Powerhouse Museum: an example of responsiveness and relevance

Within a few hours of the announced death of Michael Jackson, the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney Australia put up a case of Michael Jackson memorabilia.  Among the things that happened was the th

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