Afghan Girls and Women are Being Silenced, Literally

As I reflect on my journey, I’m taken back to the day that changed everything. I was in seventh grade, and the Taliban had forbidden me from pursuing further education. But I refused to give up. I continued to attend school in secret, along with a few brave...

Empower Your Child as a Docent in an Art Museum

Edgar Degas famous sculpture titled Little Dancer Aged Fourteen featured at the National Gallery of Art. What would your child have to say about this sculpture as your personal docent? Photo Credit: Lindsay Guarnieri While researching how art museums can engage...

How an Art Museum Can Empower BIPOC Girls to Enact Change

Allan Roche Crite’s painting titled School’s Out featured in Experience America exhibit at SAAM. The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is one of the most misunderstood art museums in the DC area for its attachment to the National Portrait Gallery. The...

Learning Language at the Museum through Song

Learn new words with your child in the Where Do Words Come From interactive exhibit! Photo credit Lindsay Guarnieri. Have you ever heard of an entire museum dedicated to learning about languages and linguistics?! Planet Word is a unique museum and the only...

A Brief Tour of Washington DC’s Unpopular Museums

Did you know that the theatre that President Lincoln was assassinated in is located in DC? Not only that, but that it is a functional theatre that puts on musicals and plays and a museum on the history of President Lincoln and how the background of the assassination...

Afghan Girls Are No Longer Visible

The sky above Kabul was a deep, foreboding grey, as if the sun had long ago abandoned us. The clouds hung low, like a mournful veil, casting a shadow over the city’s empty streets forever. This was not the same Kabul I had grown up in, where I had seen hope. The...

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