Show 2020 who’s boss and sharpen those digital skills with your friends at Museum Computer Network. This November, MCN 2020 VIRTUAL includes over 50 online experiences with 140 musetech speakers from around the world. No matter where you find yourself in your career, you’ll find opportunities to take your digital skills to the next level.…

Topic of Discussion: LGBTQ Children’s Books for Your Community Hosted by : Queer Peers = Description: How can we bridge LGBTQ topics and children’s books into brave spaces within our museums? Join us for this upcoming book club meeting with the Queer Peers! In this meeting, we’ll have the chance to engage in meaningful discussion…

Location: Google Meet RSVP: Francesca D’Alessio Description: In our first Adult Peer Group meeting we will take a deep dive into discussing the questions surrounding the current state of adult programming. We are in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and museum programming has pivoted to an online platform. How can we best maintain meaningful…

RSVP: Francesca D’Alessio Description: In our first Adult Peer Group meeting we will take a deep dive into discussing the questions surrounding the current state of adult programming. We are in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and museum programming has pivoted to an online platform. How can we best maintain meaningful and engaging experience…

Location: Zoom RSVP: laurakujo@yahoo.com Description: Join us for our next monthly meeting! Our ongoing conversation this Fall is centered around current adaptive practices to sustain and inspire early learning and family engagement in these virtual times. We will also address related themes – audience development and outreach to families, pedagogy, programming and professional learning.  Plans…

RSVP: contact@sarahburroughs.com  Description: Bummed you’re missing out on the season festivities? Join the the first ever meetup of the North Jersey Peer Group for a Halloween Happy Hour! Bring a fall snack or beverage and your favorite Halloween outfit or costume. We’ll spend some time getting to know one another, discuss plans and potential schedules…

RSVP: rachelkate.miller@gmail.com Description:  Kicking off our programming with a virtual meet & greet. As an ice breaker we’ll talk about virtual exhibitions: What have you seen that was rad? What did you have to do that was a challenge? Any tips, any tricks?  Why did everyone do coloring sheets?

RSVP: queerpeersnycmer@gmail.com Description: Consider all of your social identities during the pandemic. Which one identity have you given the most attention to and nurtured? Which identity have you neglected the most? Which identity has been more oppressed during this time? Through the work of Patricia Lannes and Nirvana Santos, we will explore the fluidity of…

The K-12 Archives Education Institute (AEI) is a free program designed to introduce primary sources to K-12 teachers as viable and practical resources for classroom instruction while helping archivists and special collections professionals identify ways to connect these materials with Common Core and state requirements. Primary source materials are drawn from the rich collections of…

Confronting Slavery at Joseph Lloyd Manor Join Preservation Long Island for the Jupiter Hammon Project, a major initiative to develop a more relevant and equitable interpretation of Joseph Lloyd Manor, one of Preservation Long Island’s historic houses and a site of Black enslavement. While enslaved at the Manor, Jupiter Hammon (1711–ca.1806) wrote powerfully about the…