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Goodbye 2020

Brad Bredehofft • December 31, 2020

New Year New Website for Museum Study

We all feel like putting the last year behind us and looking to a brighter future. In that spirit we are debuting a new website. Museum Study is also introducing several new services including Course Hosting, Virtual Workshops, an expanded Resources section, and a Blog. There are already two new members to our team, Heather George and Nathan Sentence, and there are more coming so keep an eye out for future announcements.

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Our new Course Hosting is professional development customized for your staff or members. From individual courses to Virtual Workshops to a Certificate Program, Museum Study can host your online professional development. We can even help you find instructors and develop content that is customized for your needs. We already host courses for the American Association for State and Local History. Let us know if you have any questions or are interested in having Museum Study host courses for you.

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Do you have a group that would like to participate in a workshop rather than entering everyone in one of our courses? The group can be from an institution, an association, or even a conference. Our instructors have given workshops all over the world. Now they will use their expertise to deliver custom virtual workshops. The online format allows us to share resources and accomplish learning objectives that are difficult to achieve in a time constrained in person format. We can stretch out the learning over a longer period of time giving participants an opportunity to read and digest the knowledge imparted by our instructors and formulate more meaningful questions and responses. Using our learning management system and Zoom we can curate an online workshop tailored to your group’s needs. Most of our course topics can be presented as a Virtual Workshop.

We are recruiting several new instructors so be watching for future announcements. Heather George and Nathan Sentence have been assisting Laura Phillips with our new Decolonizing Museums in Practice course and are now joining us as co-instructors. Laura, Heather, and Nathan will also be offering Decolonizing Museums in Practice as a Virtual Workshop.

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Heather George is a Curator, Indigenous Histories at the Canadian Museum of History focusing on the social, political and cultural history of Canada's Indigenous Peoples, as well as material culture and its interpretation. Responsible for the development of exhibitions about the international experiences of Indigenous peoples. Planning and conducting substantive research. Collaborating in collections development, support programs and public initiatives. Communicate research results to various audiences through a variety of media. Lead, influence and inform others, in support of corporate priorities. As a scholar of Euro-Canadian and Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) descent much of Heather's personal and professional work has been directed at gaining a better understanding of her culture and history.

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Nathan “mudyi” Sentance is a Wiradjuri librarian and museum educator who grew up in Darkinjung Country. Nathan currently works at the Australian Museum as the Digital Program manager and writes about critical librarianship and critical museology from a First Nations perspective and has been published in the Guardian, Cordite, Poetry, Lifted Brow, and Sydney Review of Books and manages the blog The Archival Decolonist. Nathan's main work focus is ensuring Indigenous perspectives and voices are part of the cultural and historical narrative that GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) institutions collect and convey as well as working on accessibility to information held in institutions to Aboriginal communities.

Our expanded Resources section includes Resources from the Museum Study team, recommended Books for Your Library, Standards & Best Practices from Associations, lists of Professional Associations, and sources of Funding for Professional Development. You can also find this Blog in the Resources section, which will include news and Book Reviews like the one by Sarah Sutton on the book Museum Activism.


The Museum Study team looks forward to working with you in 2021.


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