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0Mind-blowing Monday at the MAAM Annual Meeting

Posted on: 10-11-2011

First, Nina Simon’s radical, post-Post Modern, Weil lecture challenged MAAM 2011 attendees to re-think everything they thought they already re-thought. Just when you thought it was safe to start a blog and social media-ify your museum, Simon advocated putting all those Web 2.0 concepts into practice not on the web, but in real life. Thus Simon’s museum embraces a new identity of art-museum-as-community-center, attracting locals to such radical partcipatory activities as sitting on sofas and doing jigsaw puzzles. For the …

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0Silent Auction to benefit Greater Baltimore History Alliance and MAAM Fellowships

Posted on: 10-5-2011

On Sunday, MAAM will kick off our 2011 Annual Meeting, “A Meeting of the Muses: Inspiration, Strategy and Sustainability,” at Baltimore’s Sheraton City Center. As part of the three day conference there will be a silent auction consisting of unique items from local museums and attractions as well as MAAM partner museums. Proceeds from the auction will benefit the Greater Baltimore History Alliance and MAAM’s Bruce Craig Fellowships, a program designed to make attendance at the Annual Meeting affordable to …

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1A Fellow’s reflection on the 2010 Conference

Posted on: 10-31-2010

When I applied for the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums Bruce Craig Fellowship, I had just begun planning my move from Iowa to New Jersey to attend graduate school at Seton Hall University.  I knew that it could be a good networking occasion, a chance to meet a few other professionals in the area, and familiarize myself with some of the museums.  I never guessed that the four days of the conference would be one of the most enriching experiences of …

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