Arts” Coverage Isn’t Museum Coverage

(and it certainly isn’t exhibition coverage) I had a conversation the other day during which something went “click,” and a whole series of vague questions and half-thoughts just fell into place.  I was on a phone call with an arts reporter at a nationally known newspaper.  I’d written an email thanking several reporters who had…

Museum Educators Next, Part IV: Impact Where it Counts

This post, the fourth in a series on what’s next for museum educators, proposes the mastery of interpretive planning, a process that shapes what is still the central role of most museums – exhibition development and display. Interpretive Planning on the Institutional Level  “Interpretive planning” is a fairly elastic term in the museum context.  In…