Queer Peers has regular meetings, starting with LGBTQ History Month in October and ending with Pride Month in June. Join this meeting on November 20th, 2024! Queer Peers seeks to provide a safer, braver space for LGBTQ+ museum educators, museum workers, and museum professionals. This NYCMER Peer Group is for connecting and networking, sharing ideas…

Museum of the City of New York On Wednesday November 20th at 6:30pm, join the Museum of the City of New York for an evening with Dr. Ned Blackhawk, Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University and an enrolled member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada.…

Our next NYCMember Tour is taking place on Saturday, November 16, 2024, at Storm King Art Center! Quoting from their About page, “Storm King Art Center is a 500-acre outdoor museum located in New York’s Hudson Valley, where visitors experience large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions under open sky.” During this NYCMember Tour, educators from Storm…

Want to create an inclusive space for LGBTQ+ youth at your institution, but don’t know where to start? Join us for a joint meeting of three NYCMER Peer Groups — K-12 & Family Programmers, Teen Programmers, and Queer Peers — for an engaging workshop! Learn how museums can better support, include, and advocate for LGBTQ+…

October is LGBTQ+ History Month, so celebrate with NYCMER Queer Peers by visiting the newly-opened Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center (SNMVC)! Learn about the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, Greenwich Village as a LGBTQ+ enclave, and the AIDS crisis. There will be a guided tour of the exhibitions, including a 1967 AMI Jukebox that is functional, an AR experience, a Theater, and…

Join us to kick off the NYCMER year! Our annual Meet & Greet will take place at the Green-Wood Cemetery. Connect with your peers while learning about Brooklyn’s historic cemetery, nationally-recognized arboretum, and cultural landmark with evening trolley tours, interactive night nature walks, and a preview of a new art installation by Raul Ayala in…

We are gearing up for an exciting series of NYCMER Historic Sites Peer Group Meetings. This Peer Group offers specialized support to educators working in a wide variety of cultural institutions of all sizes including historic houses, libraries, and City, State, and Federal sites.  Our first meeting will be on Zoom on Monday, October 21…

Queer Peers has regular meetings, starting with LGBTQ History Month in October and ending with Pride Month in June. Join the first meeting of the year on October 9th, 2024! Queer Peers seeks to provide a safer, braver space for LGBTQ+ museum educators, museum workers, and museum professionals. This NYCMER Peer Group is for connecting…

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Hear from museum educators who have taken the plunge into following their passions and writing a book! What aspects of their museum education backgrounds inspired them to go the distance and pursue publishing? Dustin Growick, author of The Museum (The Inside Story), and REX ED: An Adults-Only Guide to Dinosaurs, and Eleanor Whitney, author of Promote Your Book,…