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Upcoming Events

NYCMER Queer Peers Group Meeting

Oct 09, 2024 6:00PM—7:30PM

Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, 2nd Floor Seminar Room, New York, New York 10011

NYCMER Meet & Greet

Oct 23, 2024 6:00PM—8:00PM

Green-Wood Cemetery

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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.

Latest News

NYCMER Response to COVID-19

March 20, 2020

Dear members,  We hope this email finds you and your loved ones healthy and well! Over the past week, we have been inspired by the creative ways in which museum educators have engaged learners remotely and disheartened by the toll closures have taken on our workforce. In response to evolving circumstances, we have compiled resources…

A Message to Members

March 16, 2020

Dear members, First, on behalf of the NYCMER board-of-trustees, I hope that all of you and your loved ones are healthy and doing well.  As a community of museum educators we know that much of our programming and plans have been thrown up in the air–canceled, postponed, converted to virtual, or unknown–with real implications for…

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…