@danspock

Ear to the ground on all things museum.

 Minneapolis - St. Paul
Joined May 2009
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Museums: Essential or Non-essential? wunderkammer.blog/2020/05/07… via @wordpressdotcom
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A Post-Coronavirus Museum - What challenges will emerge for museums from the pandemic? How will we address them? wunderkammer.blog/2020/04/23… via @wordpressdotcom
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To Fight Racism Within Museums, They Need to Stop Acting Like They're Neutral vice.com/en_us/article/pavpk… via @vice
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“In order to really make a city progress, you have to have a really rigorous understanding of local history. That’s when you begin to care about your community, and learn to contribute to its growth & progress in a really meaningful way.” -Willie Griffin thecharlottepost.com/news/20… – at Charlotte, NC
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50 Years After Their Mug Shots, Portraits of Mississippi’s Freedom Riders nyti.ms/2IgAYvr
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Philly’s Awesome New Elevated Rail Park Opens June 14 uwishu.nu/2G7pchj
Rebecca Solnit: Whose Story (and Country) Is This? lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-th… via @lithub

Rebecca Solnit: Whose Story (and Country) Is This?

Watching the film Phantom Thread, I kept wondering why I was supposed to be interested in a control freak who is consistently unpleasant to all the people around him. I kept looking at the other ch…

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Americans love museums! My latest By the Numbers in Museum. You can download the full report from AAM. @AAMers aam-us.org/2018/01/20/museum…
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washingtonpost.com/news/retr…

Is technology bringing history to life or distorting it?

From a digitized JFK speech that he never gave to colorized Lincoln and Holocaust photos, scholars are debating a wave of historical re-creation and manipulation.

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wjla.com/news/local/dc-polic…

DC police training takes officers to African-American history museum

WASHINGTON (WJLA) - In an effort to decrease tension between the police and Washington's black community, all sworn Metropolitan Police Department officers are required to participate in a new...

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How a Wave of Honest History Museums Is Changing Black Tourism

The Legacy Museum, and attractions like it, are transforming the experience of historical tourism for black people.

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So excited! Charlotte Native Chosen as New Historian for Levine Museum charlottemagazine.com/Charlo…
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Ms. Dorothy Count-Scoggins and Steve Crump take questions from guests after screening his film “9/4/57.” #CometoUnderstand #KnowCLT
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Congratulations to one of the founders of NAME, Kathy McLean, for receiving the Award for Distinguished Service from @AAMers! #AAM2018 #NAMEatAAM2018
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On the Mass Extinction of Museum Professionals & Why Trustees Should be Worried

Museums are institutions. Generations of employees come and go. They do their jobs and then they walk away. Their impacts are big or small…

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A disastrous transit vote in Nashville. Will Charlotte do the same? charlotteobserver.com/opinio…
St. Paul exhibit tackles mental health: 'People don't realize how hard it is' strib.mn/2HKElXm
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the @levinemuseum and i are pleased to announce the next install of… instagram.com/p/BiXYVNLHLAL/…
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