Museums (and Girls) are Powerful

May 18, 2022

Museums are quite powerful, both as socio-cultural institutions and as places of work. It is interesting though, that museum labor is predominantly done by women and yet most of them don’t hold the power.

International Museum Day 2017: Saying the unspeakable

May 18, 2017

Every year since 1977, May 18th has been organized as International Museum Day. This year’s theme is “Museums and contested histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums.” So what’s unspeakable? Discussing¬†the impact on women of the...

International Museums Day

May 18, 2016

Since 1977, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) has coordinated an International Museums Day, to celebrate everything we love about our museums and to raise awareness of issues museums face in their need for improvement. Museums are loved and valued because of...

So you want to be a Museum Curator

Apr 26, 2013

Curator for the USS Constitution Museum, Sarah Watkins, describes the Constitution’s rigging to Secretary of the Navy, Gordon R. England, and British Ambassador, Sir David Manning, during a tour of the museum on¬†June 25, 2004. Photo: Wikicommons Do...

The learning pleasure within museums

May 18, 2012

Girls in front of Anne Frank’s famous wall of pictures inside her attic room. http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Franks-History/From-hiding-place-to-museum/Visitors-over-the-years/ ¬† The International Council of Museums (ICOM) first embarked on the...

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