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Leadership at the Boston Children's Museum

Here are two short video’s — one on Mike Spock’s leadership style and one on being the boss of the Visitor Center at the Boston Children’s Museum between 1970-1987.  Both accurately reflect m

ANSWERS TO THE CONSULTANTS ROLE FOR MUSEUM NEWS

The bi-lawys of AAM and the practices regardling consultants did not reflect the changing world of work when I became a consultant in 1993.  And having been an official in the AAM when salarie

AN INTRODUCTION TO A "WORLD OF MUSEUM WORK" BOOK THAT NEVER HAPPENED (2008)

In 2008, a group of us considered writing a book about the changing nature of museum work.  The Museum Group of which I was (and still am) a member thought about book publication as a useful a

THE ROLE OF THE CONSULTANT 1999 A SPEECH AT AAM

In 1999 I was asked to be on a panel in AAM about consultants.  This is a short speech which accompanies a power point about the usefulness of consultants for directors and about the different

REFLECTIONS ON INSTITUTIONAL TRAUMA

The chapter called MOVING THE MUSEUM was written about the Boston Children’s Museum move in 1979.  It became part of the publication that I edited called INSTITUTIONAL TRAUMA: The Effect o

THE FORWARD TO ROBERT JANES BOOK MUSEUMS IN A TROUBLED WORLD

MUSEUMS IN A TROUBLED WORLD is a book written by Robert Janes in 2009 and published by Routledge.  I was honored to be asked to write the forward.  It is called “A New Form of Fo

The ART MUSEUM AS EDUCATOR a discussion of he Client Centered Structure of the Children's Museum, Boston

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.

Taxonomies Power Point

This powerpoint is about multiple theories aka as taxonomies.  It hopefully allows the reader to connect with multiple ideas and understand that museums are complex places that deserve multipl

Boston Stories: Internal Culture of the Boston Children's Museum in the 1970's and 80's

This project “Boston Stories” is the work of many people, mostly alumni of the Boston Children’s Museum during the 1970’s onward.

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