Presentations
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Reinventing Museum Studies for the Pandemic and Post-pandemic World
Laura-Edythe Coleman, Heather McLaughlin
Focused Discussion
Great Hall : 2022-04-24 11:15
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Heirdom Capital
Tommaso Giambelli
Innovation Showcase
Online Asynchronous
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Resistance Is Not Futile
Doris Ash
Focused Discussion
Online Asynchronous
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Mural Arts Philadelphia
Netanel Portier
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Online Curation Tools for Community-led Cultural Context Creation
Amanda Figueroa, Alison Guzman
Poster Session
Online Asynchronous
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The Louvre Abu Dhabi
Joel Mandina
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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“Adapt As We Go"
Alia Reza, Stewart Williams
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Auditorium : 2022-04-22 11:35
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Salvage List and the Evaluation of Value
Shanice Martin
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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‘Lenses’ of the Country Doctor - A Chemical and Historical Collaboration for Rural Museums
Elizabeth La Fave
Innovation Showcase
Online Asynchronous
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The Museum as Curatorial Apparatus
Jennifer Eickelmann
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Examination of Post-COVID Identity and Inclusivity through Heritage
Ellen Webster
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Auditorium : 2022-04-22 11:55
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Challenges and Opportunities in Regards to Research Questions During the Pandemic
Ivi Papaioannou
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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African Being, Museology, and Questions of Representation
Claudia Naa Densua Ankrah
Focused Discussion
Online Asynchronous
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Museumpark - Curation Through Adaptive Reuse
Danna Biello, Iain Kerrigan, Michelle Pannone
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Cultural Identity in the University Gallery
Dr. Christa Irwin, Ashley Hartman
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Auditorium : 2022-04-24 12:45
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Hurricane Ida and New Orleans Museums
Zahrasadat Hosseini, Paulette R. Hebert
Poster Session
Online Asynchronous
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Rethinking Repatriation and Policy in Terms of Communication and Accessibility
Rebecca Bourgeois
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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No Barriers
Matthew Cobham
Poster Session
Online Asynchronous
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Cultural Practice in Decolonizing Museums
Lebo Marishane
Poster Session
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Environments of Equity and Engagement in Museums
Monca Montgomery
Poster Session
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Museum, art and education by competences
Victorino Morales Davila
Innovation Showcase
Great Hall : 2022-04-22 15:40
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Co-designing Art Exhibition Experiences
Mariana Bertelli Pagotto
Workshop Presentation
Pre-Conference Day : 2022-04-21 17:00
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An Invitation to Enter the Lichen Museum
A. Laurie Palmer
Innovation Showcase
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Unmasking Bias in the Inclusive Museum
Khamal Patterson
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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Inclusion as Tangible Community Development
Ximena Varela
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Woeful Inadequacy
Liz Feld
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Whom Does the Object Call For?
Giuseppina Addo, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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A New Future for Museums
Ariel Cohen
Innovation Showcase
-
Curating in the Hedgerows
Anne Dugan
Focused Discussion
-
Feel the Art
Ming Zhao
Poster Session
Online Asynchronous
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Philosophy for Children to Promote Creative Citizenship in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bogota
Alejandra Herrero Hernandez, Alvaro Sebastian Jimenez Cortes
Workshop Presentation
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A Sense of Art
Carolina De Alba Garza
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Auditorium : 2022-04-22 14:15
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Curatorial Practices Challenging Colonial Narratives in Fashion and Dress Exhibition
Laura Dionne
Focused Discussion
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Non-fungible Tokens and the Rethinking of Digital Art, the Collector, and the Museum
Cesar Santalo
Innovation Showcase
Auditorium : 2022-04-24 13:05
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Cross-cultural Syncretism Through the Transmedia Exhibition
Irena Sertic
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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A Century at the Museum
Frederick Gooding, Jr.
Workshop Presentation
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Transgender Dysphoria Bronzes
Gray Golding
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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The New Normal of Museum Communication in the Age of COVID
Cecilia Lazzeretti, Gianfranco Pastore
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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The Inclusive Museum
Janelle Christine Simmons
Innovation Showcase
Great Hall : 2022-04-22 14:35
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Do No Harm
Ruth Starr
Workshop Presentation
Auditorium : 2022-04-24 11:15
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Sensorial Inclusion
Ellen Belshaw
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Creating Postcards and Empathy in the Art Museum
Beatriz Galuban
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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Unesco 4 All Project
Fabio D'agnano
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
Visitors
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Museum Audio Description
Chiara Bartolini
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Defining the Education and Communications Roles of Museums In Nigeria
Oluwatoyin Sogbesan
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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The Carceral Museum
Yael Horowitz
Workshop Presentation
Levy Gallery : 2022-04-24 12:50
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Words Matter, So Does Work
Xiaofei Xie
Focused Discussion
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Making Museums Matter
Jacqueline Goldstein
Workshop Presentation
Pre-Conference Day : 2022-04-21 16:00
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Towards a Human Universal Design in the Museum
Muriel Molinier
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Great Hall : 2022-04-22 12:15
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Defining Environments of Art Museums
Jungwon Lee
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Museum Safety for Inclusive Museum Events and Provisions for a Successful Museum Visit
Alexander Sorokin, Evgeniya Kiseleva
Workshop Presentation
Levy Gallery : 2022-04-22 15:20
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Inclusive Lighting in Museums
Paula Longato
Innovation Showcase
Online Asynchronous
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Design Inclusive Museums
Marlen Castellanos Uralde, Raúl Alejandro Ríos Alonso
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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Museum Without Borders
Aynur Mammadova
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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Non-ocularcentric expansive museographies
Juan Carlos Montes Rodríguez
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Great Hall : 2022-04-22 15:20
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Facing Three Ways
Derek Bryce
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Auditorium : 2022-04-24 12:05
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Educational Programs Integrating Visits to the Science and Technology Museum
Dimitrios Koliopoulos, Kalliopi Meli
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Auditorium : 2022-04-24 12:25
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Multi-layered Accessible Interpretation via Mobile
Anna Joy Lowe
Innovation Showcase
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Who is Qualified?
Mary Hull, Felicia Knise Ingram
Focused Discussion
Great Hall : 2022-04-24 11:15
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How Cultural Mediators Perceive the Use of Technology for Increasing Accessibility in Museums
Leandro S. Guedes, Monica Landoni
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Auditorium : 2022-04-22 15:40
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Blue Artism
Aida Sarac Berbic
Innovation Showcase
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Access through InSite
Stacy Doore
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Regulation Influences on Contemporary Chinese Art Museums
Peiyi Lyu
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Seeking Inclusion and Democracy Through Co-curating Projects
Theoktisti Misirloglou, Niki Nikonanou
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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What Can the MoMA Learn from Walmart?
Ahmed Abdelazim
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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Organizational Knowledge in Museums
Neville Vakharia
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Great Hall : 2022-04-22 11:55
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To Relevance and Beyond
Kenna Hernly
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Educators and Students as Visitors - Lessons From Social Museology
Therese Quinn
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Collecting Information about Visitors to Provide Personalised and Inclusive Experience within Museums
Antonella Poce, Maria Rosaria Re, Mara Valente
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Great Hall : 2022-04-22 11:35
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Access through the Prism of Accessibility Facilities of Selected Museums and Open-air Ethnographic Parks
Beata Borowska Beszta
Innovation Showcase
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Museology Within Comparative Music Education
Nikita Mamedov
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Art Galleries and Difficult Knowledge
Natasha S. Reid
Innovation Showcase
Pre-Conference Day : 2022-04-21 12:00
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On the Accessibility of Collections Spaces in a Post-COVID World
Rebecca Gibson
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
Collections
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Authentic Objects Decontextualized and Recontextualized
Magdalena Wroblewska
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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People, Property, and the Panopticon
Leeann Ream
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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The Benin Bronzes
Jennifer Coury
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Auditorium : 2022-04-22 16:00
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OpenPipe - a Digital Tool for Exploring Online Catalogues of Digital Art in Immersive Spaces
Steven Cutchin
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Donating Historical Items to Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Zachary Sapienza
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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Developing and Beta Testing a Digital Records System and Logistical Task Stream for The Fashion Archive Using Retail Management Inventory Strategies and E-commerce Product Categorization
Anna Kearney, Morgan Igou, Madeleine Leidner
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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(In)Visible Storage
Anne Ricculli
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
-
Hybrid Experiences and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Mia Yates
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Auditorium : 2022-04-22 15:20
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Beta Testing a Digitized Condition Report Using Handheld Technology in a Fashion Collection
Grace Woodson
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
Representations
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Transforming Museum Management
Yuha Jung
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Auditorium : 2022-04-22 13:55
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Sensory Underload
Alison Rivett
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
-
Community-Based Exhibition Design for Museo San Rafael, Bulacan
Wilson Ii Yu, Eric Zerrudo
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
-
Primitivism in Context
Robyn Fishman
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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Examining the Role of Interdisciplinary Arts in Expanding Worldviews
Catie-Reagan King
Poster Session
Online Asynchronous
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Between Traditional Narrative and Its Contemporary Construction
Sifan Liu
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Riverscapes and River Stories
Jen Cline, Brad Winn, Peter Hussey
Focused Discussion
Great Hall : 2022-04-24 11:15
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Migrating Artifacts
Yaroub Al Obaidi
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Great Hall : 2022-04-22 14:15
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Have We Lost Our Senses?
Professor Roma Madan Soni
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Mors Publicae Artis
Julie Goodman, Heather McLaughlin
Poster Session
Levy Gallery : 2022-04-24 11:15
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Importance of Applying Digital Technology to Museums in Times of Crisis
Marwa Elhosary
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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A Critical Discourse Analysis of Erie Canal Heritage Communication
Renee Barry
Workshop Presentation
Levy Gallery : 2022-04-24 12:05
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When Museums Become Religious
Stephanie Machabee
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Auditorium : 2022-04-22 14:35
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Mapping Sound-Based Multimodal Museum Practices
Alcina Cortez
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Uncovering Narratives Through Curated Education
Michelle Pannone, Iain Kerrigan, Stephanie Golden, Danna Biello
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Great Hall : 2022-04-22 13:55
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Collections Histories for Accountability and Transparency Project at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
Catherine Ahern, Greg Polley, Molly Kamph, Alice Fornari, Megan Viera
Poster Session
Online Asynchronous
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Intangible Cultural Heritage - the Life of the Rathwa Community
Gayatri Mathur
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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Multisensory Access and Audience Engagement
Kathleen Sitter, Alison Grittner, Heath Birkholz, Mihaela Slabe, Kimberly Van Patten
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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What is Heritage Diplomacy?
Tuuli Lahdesmaki
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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The Multisensory Museum
Peter Willem Vermeersch, Ann Heylighen
Innovation Showcase
Online Asynchronous
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Blind Musicians ‘See’ Beauty in House Museum
Hatice (Sule) Ozer, Laura Hanks, Jonathan Hale, Xijing Chen
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Holder of Battered Memories - Suitcase as a Metaphor for the (Lost) Mobile Body
Elizabeth Carnegie, Jerzy Kociatkiewicz
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Online Asynchronous
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Web Model Dot Space
Aaron Jones
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Focused Discussion
-
Reinventing Museum Studies for the Pandemic and Post-pandemic World
Laura-Edythe Coleman, Heather McLaughlin
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Great Hall : 2022-04-24 11:15
-
Resistance Is Not Futile
Doris Ash
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
Words Matter, So Does Work
Xiaofei Xie
Visitors
-
African Being, Museology, and Questions of Representation
Claudia Naa Densua Ankrah
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
Riverscapes and River Stories
Jen Cline, Brad Winn, Peter Hussey
Representations
Great Hall : 2022-04-24 11:15
-
Curating in the Hedgerows
Anne Dugan
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
Curatorial Practices Challenging Colonial Narratives in Fashion and Dress Exhibition
Laura Dionne
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Innovation Showcase
-
Heirdom Capital
Tommaso Giambelli
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
‘Lenses’ of the Country Doctor - A Chemical and Historical Collaboration for Rural Museums
Elizabeth La Fave
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
Museum, art and education by competences
Victorino Morales Davila
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Great Hall : 2022-04-22 15:40
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An Invitation to Enter the Lichen Museum
A. Laurie Palmer
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
Blue Artism
Aida Sarac Berbic
Visitors
-
A New Future for Museums
Ariel Cohen
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
Non-fungible Tokens and the Rethinking of Digital Art, the Collector, and the Museum
Cesar Santalo
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Auditorium : 2022-04-24 13:05
-
Access through the Prism of Accessibility Facilities of Selected Museums and Open-air Ethnographic Parks
Beata Borowska Beszta
Visitors
-
The Inclusive Museum
Janelle Christine Simmons
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Great Hall : 2022-04-22 14:35
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
-
Mural Arts Philadelphia
Netanel Portier
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
Transforming Museum Management
Yuha Jung
Representations
Auditorium : 2022-04-22 13:55
-
Sensory Underload
Alison Rivett
Representations
-
Community-Based Exhibition Design for Museo San Rafael, Bulacan
Wilson Ii Yu, Eric Zerrudo
Representations
-
The Louvre Abu Dhabi
Joel Mandina
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
“Adapt As We Go"
Alia Reza, Stewart Williams
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Auditorium : 2022-04-22 11:35
-
Salvage List and the Evaluation of Value
Shanice Martin
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
Primitivism in Context
Robyn Fishman
Representations
-
The Museum as Curatorial Apparatus
Jennifer Eickelmann
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
Between Traditional Narrative and Its Contemporary Construction
Sifan Liu
Representations
Online Asynchronous
-
Examination of Post-COVID Identity and Inclusivity through Heritage
Ellen Webster
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Auditorium : 2022-04-22 11:55
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Challenges and Opportunities in Regards to Research Questions During the Pandemic
Ivi Papaioannou
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
Museumpark - Curation Through Adaptive Reuse
Danna Biello, Iain Kerrigan, Michelle Pannone
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
Migrating Artifacts
Yaroub Al Obaidi
Representations
Great Hall : 2022-04-22 14:15
-
Cultural Identity in the University Gallery
Dr. Christa Irwin, Ashley Hartman
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Auditorium : 2022-04-24 12:45
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Have We Lost Our Senses?
Professor Roma Madan Soni
Representations
Online Asynchronous
-
Rethinking Repatriation and Policy in Terms of Communication and Accessibility
Rebecca Bourgeois
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
Importance of Applying Digital Technology to Museums in Times of Crisis
Marwa Elhosary
Representations
-
Museum Without Borders
Aynur Mammadova
Visitors
-
Non-ocularcentric expansive museographies
Juan Carlos Montes Rodríguez
Visitors
Great Hall : 2022-04-22 15:20
-
OpenPipe - a Digital Tool for Exploring Online Catalogues of Digital Art in Immersive Spaces
Steven Cutchin
Collections
Online Asynchronous
-
Educational Programs Integrating Visits to the Science and Technology Museum
Dimitrios Koliopoulos, Kalliopi Meli
Visitors
Auditorium : 2022-04-24 12:25
-
Donating Historical Items to Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Zachary Sapienza
Collections
-
Unmasking Bias in the Inclusive Museum
Khamal Patterson
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
How Cultural Mediators Perceive the Use of Technology for Increasing Accessibility in Museums
Leandro S. Guedes, Monica Landoni
Visitors
Auditorium : 2022-04-22 15:40
-
Inclusion as Tangible Community Development
Ximena Varela
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
Woeful Inadequacy
Liz Feld
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
Whom Does the Object Call For?
Giuseppina Addo, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
Seeking Inclusion and Democracy Through Co-curating Projects
Theoktisti Misirloglou, Niki Nikonanou
Visitors
Online Asynchronous
-
Uncovering Narratives Through Curated Education
Michelle Pannone, Iain Kerrigan, Stephanie Golden, Danna Biello
Representations
Great Hall : 2022-04-22 13:55
-
A Sense of Art
Carolina De Alba Garza
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Auditorium : 2022-04-22 14:15
-
Developing and Beta Testing a Digital Records System and Logistical Task Stream for The Fashion Archive Using Retail Management Inventory Strategies and E-commerce Product Categorization
Anna Kearney, Morgan Igou, Madeleine Leidner
Collections
Online Asynchronous
-
Educators and Students as Visitors - Lessons From Social Museology
Therese Quinn
Visitors
Online Asynchronous
-
Collecting Information about Visitors to Provide Personalised and Inclusive Experience within Museums
Antonella Poce, Maria Rosaria Re, Mara Valente
Visitors
Great Hall : 2022-04-22 11:35
-
Cross-cultural Syncretism Through the Transmedia Exhibition
Irena Sertic
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
Multisensory Access and Audience Engagement
Kathleen Sitter, Alison Grittner, Heath Birkholz, Mihaela Slabe, Kimberly Van Patten
Representations
Online Asynchronous
-
What is Heritage Diplomacy?
Tuuli Lahdesmaki
Representations
Online Asynchronous
-
Blind Musicians ‘See’ Beauty in House Museum
Hatice (Sule) Ozer, Laura Hanks, Jonathan Hale, Xijing Chen
Representations
Online Asynchronous
-
Transgender Dysphoria Bronzes
Gray Golding
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
(In)Visible Storage
Anne Ricculli
Collections
Online Asynchronous
-
Hybrid Experiences and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Mia Yates
Collections
Auditorium : 2022-04-22 15:20
-
The New Normal of Museum Communication in the Age of COVID
Cecilia Lazzeretti, Gianfranco Pastore
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
Holder of Battered Memories - Suitcase as a Metaphor for the (Lost) Mobile Body
Elizabeth Carnegie, Jerzy Kociatkiewicz
Representations
Online Asynchronous
-
Sensorial Inclusion
Ellen Belshaw
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
Beta Testing a Digitized Condition Report Using Handheld Technology in a Fashion Collection
Grace Woodson
Collections
Online Asynchronous
-
On the Accessibility of Collections Spaces in a Post-COVID World
Rebecca Gibson
Visitors
Online Asynchronous
-
Mining identity. The reflection of a city through a museum in Guanajuato, Gto. Mexico
Ana Renata Buchanan Zarate, Ma Eugenia Sanchez Ramos, Laura Elena Zarate Negrete
Collections
Great Hall : 2022-04-22 16:00
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Web Model Dot Space
Aaron Jones
Representations
-
Creating Postcards and Empathy in the Art Museum
Beatriz Galuban
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
Unesco 4 All Project
Fabio D'agnano
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
Poster Session
-
Online Curation Tools for Community-led Cultural Context Creation
Amanda Figueroa, Alison Guzman
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
Examining the Role of Interdisciplinary Arts in Expanding Worldviews
Catie-Reagan King
Representations
Online Asynchronous
-
Hurricane Ida and New Orleans Museums
Zahrasadat Hosseini, Paulette R. Hebert
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
Mors Publicae Artis
Julie Goodman, Heather McLaughlin
Representations
Levy Gallery : 2022-04-24 11:15
-
No Barriers
Matthew Cobham
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
Cultural Practice in Decolonizing Museums
Lebo Marishane
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
Environments of Equity and Engagement in Museums
Monca Montgomery
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
Feel the Art
Ming Zhao
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
-
Collections Histories for Accountability and Transparency Project at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
Catherine Ahern, Greg Polley, Molly Kamph, Alice Fornari, Megan Viera
Representations
Online Asynchronous
-
Partnerships as Pathways to Accessibility
Andrea Tyszka, Laura Westmoreland, Fern Silverman
Visitors
Levy Gallery : 2022-04-24 11:15
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Designing Social Stories for a University Museum
Marta Brunelli
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Online Asynchronous
Workshop Presentation
-
Museum Safety for Inclusive Museum Events and Provisions for a Successful Museum Visit
Alexander Sorokin, Evgeniya Kiseleva
Visitors
Levy Gallery : 2022-04-22 15:20
-
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Erie Canal Heritage Communication
Renee Barry
Representations
Levy Gallery : 2022-04-24 12:05
-
Co-designing Art Exhibition Experiences
Mariana Bertelli Pagotto
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Pre-Conference Day : 2022-04-21 17:00
-
Philosophy for Children to Promote Creative Citizenship in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bogota
Alejandra Herrero Hernandez, Alvaro Sebastian Jimenez Cortes
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
A Century at the Museum
Frederick Gooding, Jr.
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
Do No Harm
Ruth Starr
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Auditorium : 2022-04-24 11:15
-
(In)Visible Storage
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Collections
-
A Century at the Museum
Workshop Presentation
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Erie Canal Heritage Communication
Workshop Presentation
Representations
-
A New Future for Museums
Innovation Showcase
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
A Sense of Art
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
Access through InSite
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
-
African Being, Museology, and Questions of Representation
Focused Discussion
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
An Invitation to Enter the Lichen Museum
Innovation Showcase
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
Art Galleries and Difficult Knowledge
Innovation Showcase
Visitors
-
Arts and Access - a Tale of Two Towns
Poster Session
Visitors
-
Authentic Objects Decontextualized and Recontextualized
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Collections
-
Beta Testing a Digitized Condition Report Using Handheld Technology in a Fashion Collection
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Collections
-
Between Traditional Narrative and Its Contemporary Construction
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Representations
-
Blind Musicians ‘See’ Beauty in House Museum
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Representations
-
Blue Artism
Innovation Showcase
Visitors
-
Challenges and Opportunities in Regards to Research Questions During the Pandemic
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
Co-designing Art Exhibition Experiences
Workshop Presentation
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
Collecting Information about Visitors to Provide Personalised and Inclusive Experience within Museums
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
-
Community-Based Exhibition Design for Museo San Rafael, Bulacan
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Representations
-
Creating Postcards and Empathy in the Art Museum
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
-
Cross-cultural Syncretism Through the Transmedia Exhibition
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Cultural Identity in the University Gallery
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Cultural Practice in Decolonizing Museums
Poster Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Curating in the Hedgerows
Focused Discussion
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Curatorial Practices Challenging Colonial Narratives in Fashion and Dress Exhibition
Focused Discussion
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Defining Environments of Art Museums
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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Defining the Education and Communications Roles of Museums In Nigeria
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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Design Inclusive Museums
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
VisitorsMarlen Castellanos Uralde, Raúl Alejandro Ríos Alonso
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Designing Social Stories for a University Museum
Poster Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Do No Harm
Workshop Presentation
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Donating Historical Items to Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Collections
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Educational Programs Integrating Visits to the Science and Technology Museum
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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Educators and Students as Visitors - Lessons From Social Museology
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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Environments of Equity and Engagement in Museums
Poster Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Examination of Post-COVID Identity and Inclusivity through Heritage
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Examining the Role of Interdisciplinary Arts in Expanding Worldviews
Poster Session
Representations
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Facing Three Ways
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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Feel the Art
Poster Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Have We Lost Our Senses?
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Representations
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Heirdom Capital
Innovation Showcase
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Holder of Battered Memories - Suitcase as a Metaphor for the (Lost) Mobile Body
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Representations
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How Cultural Mediators Perceive the Use of Technology for Increasing Accessibility in Museums
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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Hurricane Ida and New Orleans Museums
Poster Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Hybrid Experiences and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Collections
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Importance of Applying Digital Technology to Museums in Times of Crisis
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Representations
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Inclusion as Tangible Community Development
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Inclusive Lighting in Museums
Innovation Showcase
Visitors
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Intangible Cultural Heritage - the Life of the Rathwa Community
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Representations
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Making Museums Matter
Workshop Presentation
Visitors
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Mapping Sound-Based Multimodal Museum Practices
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Representations
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Migrating Artifacts
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Representations
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Mining identity. The reflection of a city through a museum in Guanajuato, Gto. Mexico
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
CollectionsAna Renata Buchanan Zarate, Ma Eugenia Sanchez Ramos, Laura Elena Zarate Negrete
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Mors Publicae Artis
Poster Session
Representations
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Multi-layered Accessible Interpretation via Mobile
Innovation Showcase
Visitors
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Multisensory Access and Audience Engagement
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
RepresentationsKathleen Sitter, Alison Grittner, Heath Birkholz, Mihaela Slabe, Kimberly Van Patten
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Mural Arts Philadelphia
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Museology Within Comparative Music Education
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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Museum Audio Description
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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Museum Without Borders
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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Museum, art and education by competences
Innovation Showcase
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Museumpark - Curation Through Adaptive Reuse
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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No Barriers
Poster Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Non-fungible Tokens and the Rethinking of Digital Art, the Collector, and the Museum
Innovation Showcase
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Non-ocularcentric expansive museographies
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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On the Accessibility of Collections Spaces in a Post-COVID World
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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Online Curation Tools for Community-led Cultural Context Creation
Poster Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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OpenPipe - a Digital Tool for Exploring Online Catalogues of Digital Art in Immersive Spaces
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Collections
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Organizational Knowledge in Museums
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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People, Property, and the Panopticon
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Collections
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Philosophy for Children to Promote Creative Citizenship in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bogota
Workshop Presentation
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the MuseumAlejandra Herrero Hernandez, Alvaro Sebastian Jimenez Cortes
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Primitivism in Context
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Representations
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Regulation Influences on Contemporary Chinese Art Museums
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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Reinventing Museum Studies for the Pandemic and Post-pandemic World
Focused Discussion
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Resistance Is Not Futile
Focused Discussion
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Rethinking Repatriation and Policy in Terms of Communication and Accessibility
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Riverscapes and River Stories
Focused Discussion
Representations
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Salvage List and the Evaluation of Value
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Seeking Inclusion and Democracy Through Co-curating Projects
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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Sensorial Inclusion
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Sensory Underload
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Representations
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The Benin Bronzes
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Collections
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The Carceral Museum
Workshop Presentation
Visitors
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The Inclusive Museum
Innovation Showcase
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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The Louvre Abu Dhabi
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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The Multisensory Museum
Innovation Showcase
Representations
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The Museum as Curatorial Apparatus
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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The New Normal of Museum Communication in the Age of COVID
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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To Relevance and Beyond
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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Towards a Human Universal Design in the Museum
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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Transforming Museum Management
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Representations
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Transgender Dysphoria Bronzes
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Uncovering Narratives Through Curated Education
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
RepresentationsMichelle Pannone, Iain Kerrigan, Stephanie Golden, Danna Biello
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Unesco 4 All Project
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Unmasking Bias in the Inclusive Museum
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Web Model Dot Space
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Representations
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What Can the MoMA Learn from Walmart?
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Visitors
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What Is the Reach of Your Red Carpet?
Poster Session
Visitors
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What is Heritage Diplomacy?
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Representations
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When Museums Become Religious
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Representations
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Who is Qualified?
Focused Discussion
Visitors
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Whom Does the Object Call For?
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the MuseumGiuseppina Addo, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
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Woeful Inadequacy
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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Words Matter, So Does Work
Focused Discussion
Visitors
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‘Lenses’ of the Country Doctor - A Chemical and Historical Collaboration for Rural Museums
Innovation Showcase
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
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“Adapt As We Go"
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
2022 Special Focus—Rethinking the Museum
Reinventing Museum Studies for the Pandemic and Post-pandemic World
Laura-Edythe Coleman,
Heather McLaughlin
Focused Discussion
Museums and the university programs that train new museum professionals have struggled to compensate for the difficulties of the pandemic. Now, as we begin to surface from the depths of the pandemic, we have a moment to reflect on what we should change. Instead of seeing the pandemic restrictions as confining, our graduate program in museum leadership has leveraged this moment to create new ways of training museum professionals. While we have offered classes online for more than a decade, the pandemic pushed our professors to craft virtual experiences to replace the traditional hands-on practicum/apprenticeships. Not satisfied with Zoom, we have embarked on a journey to create augmented and virtual reality educational materials. In this focused discussion session, participants will have the opportunity to discuss the pros and cons of shifting to virtual instruction methods to teach the next generation of museum professionals about material culture. In particular, we focus on the role of new instructional methodologies to create an equitable and inclusive education for museum students in a post-pandemic world.
Great Hall : 2022-04-24 11:15
Museum Audio Description
Chiara Bartolini
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
This paper focuses on museum audio description (AD) as a form of interpretation offered by museums as cultural creators and an instance of intersemiotic translation, primarily conceived as an accessibility tool addressed to blind people. More specifically, the contribution seeks to explore the potential of AD of cultural artifacts and artworks for non-sighted and sighted alike, thus acknowledging a shift to ‘Universal Design’ and a new ‘universality’ that recognizes diversity and particularity while fostering inclusivity, without dividing individuals into separate categories. This seems to be particularly topical, even more now that the pandemic has forced museums to rethink the ways in which they could become more inclusive, also online. By drawing on an analysis of museum-specific AD guidelines from different contexts (Italy, the UK and the US), the paper considers ADs and other interpretive texts provided online by two art museums – the Italian Pinacoteca di Brera and the Museum of Modern Art in New York – as the results of various interpretive processes about single items: the online description, the general audio guide and the AD. Selected texts describing artworks belonging to the two museums are compared to shed light on the differences between distinct layers of interpretation. Museum AD may arguably be revisited as a form of museum translation for everybody, by configuring it not only as an instrument improving access to vulnerable groups (e.g. the elderly, migrants and individuals with cognitive needs) but also as ‘guided looking’ for all, which may truly promote social inclusion.
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Mural Arts Philadelphia
Netanel Portier
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Mural Arts Philadelphia is the nation’s largest public art program, dedicated to the belief that art ignites change. For more than 35 years, Mural Arts has united artists and communities through a collaborative and equitable process, creating nearly 4,000 artworks that have transformed public spaces and individual lives. Mural Arts aims to empower people, stimulate dialogue, and build bridges to understanding with projects that attract artists from Philadelphia and around the world, and programs that focus on youth education, restorative justice, mental health and wellness, and public art and its preservation. Popular mural tours offer a firsthand glimpse into the inspiring stories behind Mural Arts’ iconic and unparalleled collection, which has earned Philadelphia worldwide recognition as the “City of Murals.” Established in 2017 as an initiative of Mural Arts Philadelphia, the Mural Arts Institute is dedicated to advancing research on and development of participatory and socially-engaged public art practices. We work with artists, activists, arts organizations, cultural institutions, municipal governments and more through an approach centered around connection: building networks, developing partnerships, and convening artists, community, and partners to collaborate on learning opportunities, projects, programs, and change-based initiatives. Our work is in service to a larger movement that values equity, fairness, and progress across society.
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The Carceral Museum
Yael Horowitz
Workshop Presentation
Contemporary museums and prisons developed along parallel lines and during overlapping historical moments in the 19th century. These institutions are connected to each other as spaces where norms are set and reinforced, where certain values are uplifted, and certain people are disappeared. The sessions guides participants through identifying disciplinary hot spots in a museum, understanding how they make be connected to larger carceral systems, and then imagining alternatives based in liberation. Participants will leave the session with a zine and further resources to bring this conversation back to their institutions.
Levy Gallery : 2022-04-24 12:50
Hurricane Ida and New Orleans Museums
Zahrasadat Hosseini,
Paulette R. Hebert
Poster Session
On August 29, 2021, Hurricane Ida's…Category 4 winds and torrential rain left the Louisiana coastline badly beaten.” (NPR, 2021). New Orleans lost all power and for “More than one million residents … it is unclear when power will be restored…it may last more than a month... “(NPR, 2021). New Orleans experienced high heat and humidity during and after Ida. Previous researchers reported on disaster preparedness at facilities (Chandrasekera and Hebert, 2019) and power disruptions’ effects on facilities (Restrepo and Zimmerman, 2001). Hebert (2015) examined the effects of Hurricane Sandy on a Smithsonian Museum. Rodrigue (2003) performed a content analysis of newspaper articles following the September 11th disaster. Franz, et al. (2019) manually analyzed Facebook posts and developed a research methodology utilizing Facebook. Power outages may cause damage to museum artifacts during hot and humid weather when air conditioning fails. Current researchers examined how museum facilities prepared for, withstood, and reopened after Hurricane Ida using social media. Researchers explored how 14 New Orleans area museums were affected by Ida. Researchers “followed” museums on Twitter and accessed August 28 to September 28, 2021 posts, via Nvivo software. They utilized keywords in content analysis, i.e., aftermath, disaster, flood, hurricane, Ida, power, and storm. Researchers found that all studied museums closed facilities due to Ida. “Hurricane” keywords were found to exhibit the highest frequencies across museums. Facility impacts and reopening times varied. Social media was a cost-effective and unobtrusive way of studying museums subjected to a hurricane as data could be collected online.
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Defining Environments of Art Museums
Jungwon Lee
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Teaching art history to art major students is essential to enhance their understanding of old masterpieces and artifacts. The class itself, including lecturing and explaining pictures on slides, however, cannot provide enough inspirations to students in terms of applying what they learned from class to their actual art practice. Providing students with opportunities to make interactions with artifacts is necessary to facilitate their creative and critical thinking process. Not only contemporary museums are the key to experience various cultures from all around the world, but they also allow students to have interactive experience beyond the class. Museums serve the public in a wide variety of ways, as exhibition places for art and artifacts and, at the same time, as venues for social and educational events. Nevertheless, as Eisner and Dobbs have noted, many museums are culturally rich and pedagogically poor, as evidenced by the tendency of most visitors to reject the docent tour, refuse the audio-guide, and leave the catalogue unread at museums. Because most museum visitors choose to be on their own, the role of the physical environment, which reflects democratic education in museums, is important in helping visitors create meaningful experiences. The purpose of this study is to examine how art major students experience contemporary art through museum spaces.The study considers factors which positively or negatively affect the appreciation of arts and experiences through artworks.
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Mors Publicae Artis
Julie Goodman,
Heather McLaughlin
Poster Session
A city's collection of public art functions as a de facto outdoor museum. Recent removals of numerous works of public art, including monuments, from public spaces worldwide raises questions about the death of public art, and how society is rethinking the outside museum. Though many scholars suggest frameworks for the creation of public art, and for consideration of the public in the commissioning of public art, not as much attention has been paid to the removal, decommissioning, or death of public art. What does it mean for public art to die? How do decisions to remove public art from public spaces occur? What factors influence these choices? What happens to public art when it is removed? This research examines what has happened to works of public art that have been removed from public spaces in the city of Philadelphia, examining why they were removed and what happened to them next. Using data from one of America’s oldest cities and largest collections of public art as a foundation, the study seeks to develop a foundational understanding of what happens to public art at the end of its public life. In doing so, it is part of a growing body of research exploring the value and practice of public art.
Levy Gallery : 2022-04-24 11:15
Co-designing Art Exhibition Experiences
Mariana Bertelli Pagotto
Workshop Presentation
While curators use their expertise to improve audience engagement, there is potential for designers to use their knowledge through methods of co-design to enhance engagement in a way that is different to curatorial practice. In this empowering workshop, participants are invited to engage with ways that art exhibition practices can be participatory through collaboratively designing interpretation strategies for an exhibition. The event will explore opportunities to experience an exhibition in a way that resonates with visitors’ needs, interests and contexts while promoting meaningful readings and insights about artworks.This workshop is part of a PhD research project from RMIT University, under the supervision of Dr Toni Roberts and Dr Noel Waite.
Pre-Conference Day : 2022-04-21 17:00
Whom Does the Object Call For?
Giuseppina Addo,
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
The museum of the twenty-first century is operating against the backdrop of ongoing social concerns pertaining to climate change, gender inequalities and racial tensions, and often exhibitions become the contact zones where those expressions are formulated. This research analyses how a democratic and inclusive philosophical approach such as the Tigens Metod (or method of the thing) is executed by museum professionals. In doing so Stuart Hall’s model of encoding/decoding is applied as the theoretical framework as it investigates the process of exhibition production in Swedish museums. It is argued that occasionally resistant positions can emerge from the museum’s ideological discourse as key actors within the museum field yield different codes according to their own framework of knowledge and relations of production. This challenges the basic assumption in Hall’s model that media institutions yield one singular preferred code into the system. The paper concludes that an object-oriented democracy has the potential of challenging power structures, albeit this is still contingent upon the choices made by museum professionals.
Arts and Access - a Tale of Two Towns
Kimberly Thomas
Poster Session
Teaching in 19 different schools to over 19,000 through a history of public school art education and museum education, I am primed to discuss the knowledge, and arts education gap between some of the wealthiest and poorest communities in my county. My presentation aims to show an artwork that I have created reflecting on my experiences, as well as, a brochure and podcast to share information and experiences with museum art educators. My hope is that by sharing my experiences working with diverse learnings and examing knowledge, income, and experience inequities, museum educators will be better positioned to support their students and visitors.
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The New Normal of Museum Communication in the Age of COVID
Cecilia Lazzeretti,
Gianfranco Pastore
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
As part of an ongoing research on museum discourse in South-Tyrol, the present study explores the discursive strategies adopted by cultural institutions to deal with the pandemic, control uncertainty, and construct a ‘new normalcy’ scenario. Focusing on communications conveyed by museum websites and social media, the analysis explores the strategies employed by museums to engage with the audiences and remain present in the memory of visitors, even when physical access to venues is not possible. The study is qualitative in focus and relies on a combined methodology: after gathering background data through semi-structured interviews (Spradley, 1979) carried out with key informants working inside museums, representative samples of communication materials are collected and analysed drawing on techniques of discourse analysis applied to museums (see Purser, 2000, Ravelli, 2007, and Bondi, 2009). Preliminary results tend to highlight four main themes: 1) acknowledgement of the crisis and its consequences on the museum's activities; 2) information on new regulations and measures in force to access the museum; 3) engagement of the public in the initiatives promoted by the museum; 4) maintenance of a close relationship with the museum community. Within this context, the degree of explicitness with which the Covid situation is addressed by the museum can vary significantly, so as the attitude of communication, ranging from overall positive to neutral. The study is expected to develop guidelines for museum communication and foster discursive practices aimed at inclusivity and visitor-centred engagement among museum professionals of South Tyrol.
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The Inclusive Museum
Janelle Christine Simmons
Innovation Showcase
This presentation will re-define the role of the modernized inclusive museums. The museum is a social institution that intends to serve its community through education. Many museums have set pedagogies. However, many of these pedagogies appear to be archaic in nature. Museums such as the Smithsonian are full of information, but are often dry in their delivery of said information. While museums such as MoPop "is" innovative, but definitely focuses more on the entertainment side of delivering information on music/music history, etc. The presenter will focus on establishing a premise that museums may want to re-think their museum education/pedagogy to include reasonable forms of entertainment, which blends educational models with enough entertainment to students (i.e., keeping all age groups interested as well as learning). The point of museum education should be to enable its participants to receive information (i.e., the stimulus/stimuli), encode it (i.e., by means of mnemonics and entertainment), and thus learn the material so they may apply it in the future. After all, who said museum learning has to be dull?
Great Hall : 2022-04-22 14:35
On the Accessibility of Collections Spaces in a Post-COVID World
Rebecca Gibson
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
As we hopefully transition to a post-COVID-19 world, all vocations will experience an influx of newly disabled participants, museums included. To be newly disabled is a uniquely liminal experience—as one grapples with the limitations of one’s body, one also has to learn to navigate perilous physical systems which were previously not encumbrances. Stairs, long walks, uneven terrain, and even restrictions on when and how to eat or drink or go to the bathroom can impede a researcher’s ability to carry out their work. Museums are wonderful and welcoming resources for scholars performing necessary research. However, often the collections are not accessible for scholars with disabilities, being up or down staircases, in cold, small spaces, where wheelchairs will not fit, or restrictive of food and hydration, due to the nature of the artifacts. Expectations are often not communicated before the scholar visits, leading to interesting but untimely and uncomfortable improvisations on the date of access. Often this lack of accessibility is due to the age of the building housing the collections, however, when these structural exceptions are taken as the last word on the subject rather than used to spur on creative ways to ensure that all scholars, regardless of ability level, can safely and comfortably access the space, we set scholars up for limited research capacities. This paper addresses experiences in anonymized non-accessible collections spaces, and suggest ways in which standards of accessibility can be raised to address concerns had by disabled scholars, current and future.
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