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2023 AAM Annual Meeting & Museum Expo Begins Friday! Check out all the TMG Member Sessions! |
For AAM's Annual Meeting this year in Denver, connect with museum people from around the globe and learn about issues through inspiring content in four unique, thematic tracks centered on museums’ social impact: people, planet, power, and possibility. |
Putting Social Science to Work in Climate Change Interpretation
Friday, May 19, 2023
11:30am-12:30pm MDT
Public engagement efforts on climate change must start with the fundamental recognition that people have different psychological, cultural, and political reasons for acting—or not acting—to reduce carbon pollution. In this session, hear how social research data can provide insights into visitors’ beliefs and attitudes, and how to put this information to work in developing interpretive programs and exhibitions.
Presenters: Stephanie Ratcliffe, Siobhan Starrs, Sarah Sutton, and Susie Wilkening.
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That's What Friends Are For
Friday, May 19, 2023
2:00pm-3:00pm MDT
In the field of educational learning and teacher training, there is a concept called “critical friends.” This professional development technique centers on the idea that one way to grow professionally is to seek assistance—through critique, analysis, and group thinking—around an issue, project, or approach. See a model of this work, and explore what it might look like to be a critical friend to AAM.
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Research Update: Breaking News from the Annual Survey of Museum-Goers
Saturday, May 20, 2023
8:00am-9:00am MDT
Every year, AAM and Wilkening Consulting partner on a national survey that assesses how social trends are shaping the perspectives and attitudes of museum-goers. In this session, dive into the new research coming from the 2023 survey and explore visitor attitudes about returning to museums, connecting with humanity, and civic participation.
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It's Complicated! Developing Complex Approaches to Museum Exhibitions
Sunday, May 21, 2023
8:40am-10:10am MDT
Elaine Heumann Gurian and James Volkert will co-facilitate this Part 1 of a 2-part workshop that explores the idea that museums can provide exhibition outcomes in the areas of social/contemporary context, culturally specific points of view, and reveal conflicting histories and complexity without evident institutional bias. The purpose of this workshop is to explore experimental exhibition techniques to see if broadly diverse audiences, regardless of internalized positions and prejudices, can encounter an object or exhibition with a wide array of information streams without asserting museum judgement and thereby allowing the broadest possible audience to feel included and allow an underlying empathy to form regarding the complexity of fiercely held positions and prejudices.
It's Complicated! (Part II): A Workshop Developing Complex Approaches to Museum Exhibitions
Monday, May 22, 2023
10:00am-11:30am MDT
This workshop will explore the complexities explored in Part I, using objects from the Denver Art Museum collection and a framework being developed by Gurian and Volkert. Participants will be divided into working groups that look at selected objects and diagram exhibition outcomes. A pre-requisite for this workshop is to attend the conference session given by workshop presenters. Many thanks to the Denver Art Museum for providing a venue for this workshop, along with the Interpretive Engagement Team for their guidance and experience.
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