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2025 NYCMER Annual Conference

May 19, 2025

Teachers College, Columbia University

Engaging Arts & Minds: Foundations – an online training course to learn the Arts & Minds approach to art programming for people with dementia and their care partners 

Feb 19, 2025—May 04, 2025

P.O. Box 250073 Columbia University Station New York, NY 10025 United States

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Since 1979, NYCMER has provided a forum for museum education professionals to address issues of museum and educational interest, exchange and disseminate relevant information, and to explore and implement cooperative programming opportunities through roundtable discussions, workshops, and an annual conference.

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A Message from NYCMER’s Board President

March 10, 2025

Dear NYCMER Community, On behalf of the board, we want to acknowledge that many of us face a difficult transition under the new administration. Whether your funding has been threatened, your mission challenged, or your commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion undermined, we have all seen our work in education thrust into the national spotlight…

NYCMER’s Statement on the Presidential Election

November 14, 2020

The New York City Museum Educators Roundtable supports workers at museums and cultural institutions across the tri-state area. Over the last eight months, NYCMER members and our industry colleagues have been severely impacted by layoffs, furloughs, pay cuts, hour reductions, institutions closing, and more. While museums and cultural institutions struggle to survive, both locally and…

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Member Spotlight

Alexa Fairchild

Local Program Director Turnaround Arts: New York City I direct Turnaround Arts: New York City, a program run by The Kennedy Center that transforms priority schools through the strategic use of the arts. For ten years, I ran school programs at the Brooklyn Museum, leading a talented team of educators and hosting kids and teachers…