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Upcoming Events

NYCMER Queer Peers’ Pride Month Celebration

Jun 12, 2025 6:00PM—9:00PM

The Dickens (783 8th Avenue, First Floor, New York, NY 10036)

NYCMER Queer Peers Group Meeting

Jun 18, 2025 6:00PM—7:30PM

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

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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 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…

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Member Spotlight

Sarah Maldonado

Environmental Educator 2 Shirley Chisholm State Park, NYS Parks Sarah leads the environmental education team at the brand new Shirley Chisholm State Park in Brooklyn. She currently serves on the NYCMER Board as the Membership Coordinator and is an educational consultant, focused on curriculum development and education management systems. Specifically, she supports adult-child conversations, both…