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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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Remote Internship Opportunities

April 15, 2020

Call for Submissions and Available Roles for Students In this time of great change, the Museum Studies Network (of AAM) and NYCMER (New York City Museum Educators Roundtable) have produced this survey and crowdsourced spreadsheet to share remote internship opportunities for emerging museum professionals looking to pursue Summer 2020 internships in museums, libraries, archives, historic…

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…

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Kira Lacks

Assistant Director of College Events at Teachers College, Columbia University Kira Lacks is the Assistant Director of College Events at Teachers College, Columbia University. Previously, she was the Public Programs Manager at the American Museum of Natural History. Kira has over ten years of program experience producing educational activities for the visiting public in order…