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'Three Up Three Down' from the exhibition 'The Way That We Live' at The Bookcubegallery', Dublin 2010.

Nick van Woert

The freelance museum educators working in New York City are a particular breed of professional: highly trained (often with specialized skills for teaching populations with cognitive issues or physical disabilities), mostly possessing advanced degrees, frequently in love with their jobs. For museums, having these vitally committed, knowledgeable personnel to provide a human face for the institution is essential to one of their main objectives: helping the children and adults they teach to develop a long-lasting relationship with the museum. These freelancers are also mostly women who have backgrounds in art history, education, writing, or commercial art trading, or are themselves practicing artists.

The Precarious Lives of Freelance Museum Educators

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A participant's response. Copyright JPKinsella.

Field books capture essential information for ecological history but are often difficult to track down in scientific collections. The Field Book Project, launched in 2010 by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution Archives, is an initiative to catalogue field books, track their conservation, and make them accessible online.

How Audubon Pranked a Fellow Naturalist with a Bulletproof Fish

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Mazen Garbo Mourad - Martin Luther King Dance