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Early Childhood Peer Group Kickoff

Sep 26, 2025 3:00PM

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Historic Sites Peer Group Meet Up

Oct 30, 2025 5:30PM—6:30PM

Essex Market, 88 Essex Street, New York, NY 10002

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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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NYCMER’s Statement on Racial Violence and Discrimination

June 1, 2020

The history of museums is fraught. Though some serve as vital community centers, many were founded and continue to be funded by the white and wealthy, with that wealth derived from a history of slavery, colonialism, exploitation, and violence. It is impossible for institutions to remain uninfluenced by systematic bias, including the deeply embedded anti-Black…

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May 12, 2020

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Elysia Segal

Actress / Lead Teaching Artist Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Elysia Segal is an actress, historical interpreter and teaching artist at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and the New-York Historical Society, and a board member of the International Museum Theatre Alliance. She has written and performed as numerous historical characters and created…