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How Can We Get Museum Visitors to ASK More Questions?
While museum educators (myself included) spend a lot of time thinking about the types of questions we ask to visitors and students, I’m not sure we spend enough time considering how to motivate...
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Making the Introduction: Museum School Visits
Almost every museum offers some sort of “introduction to art” among its school visits themes and programs. It sounds so simple, right? Tempting to a teacher, maybe – but daunting to an educator....
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Challenging Ourselves: Strategies to Reflect on Our Practice
As managing museum educators, it’s often difficult to find new ways to help our educators grow. Often we work with seasoned, experienced, and creative educators who are teaching in the schools as well...
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“Is This Art?”: Tales from 3 New York City Educators
As museum educators, we’re always trying to get visitors to slow down, but sometimes we have a more immediate task, convincing them that they are in fact looking at a work of art. Recently three New...
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Reflecting on the Learning Power of Conversation in Museums
“Talking in museums is one of the things that makes them matter, and the way in which we talk in museums is one of the things that define for us what they are.” - Adam Gopnik Over the past 20 years,...
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OpenThink: Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) & Museums
For the past two decades, the overall discourse regarding Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) has been the subject of rather thorny debate. The often-cited conversation between Philip Yenawine and...
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Questioning the Questioning of Questions
Written by Jackie Delamatre Recently, the use of questions in art museum teaching has been questioned. In their book, Teaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience, Rika Burnham and Elliot...
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Asking Beautiful, Scary Questions: Reflections on “Leading the Future of...
Written by Karleen Gardner, Director of Learning and Innovation, Minneapolis Institute of Arts Reposted from the Museum Education Roundtable’s JME40 blog. Be sure to check out their posts exploring the...
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The Big ASK: Experiencing the Brooklyn Museum’s ASK App
“With a culture of questioning, there is always more possibility.” – Debra France & W. L. Gore “Without a good question, the answer has no place to go.” – Clayton Christensen “We live in the world...
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Building Meaningful Interpretation Around Unsettling Contemporary Art
Written by Kristin Bayans, Mike Murawski, and Phillippa Pitts This essay is part of the new MuseumsEtc book Interpreting the Art Museum, an expansive volume of 19 essays & case studies from...
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2015 Year in Review
As the fourth year of ArtMuseumTeaching wraps up, I thought it would be good to post a brief “Year in Review.” Not that we need any more end-of-the-year lists or calls for resolutions, but I think it...
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Have Conversations Here: Supporting Productive Dialogue in Museums
Written by Mike Murawski Throughout this summer, I have been thinking quite a bit about how museums respond to the events going on in the world around us as well as in our own communities (especially...
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