J Marshall Adams

I'm a museum leader and champion for engaging people in fun & meaningful cultural experiences. I thrive by always learning & always looking forward.

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Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Rethinking How We Celebrate American History
smithsonianmag.com
“The most American thing about America is American Indians.” —Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche) The first documented observance of Columbus Day in the …
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Two Scoops: The Museum of Ice Cream
aam-us.org - Elizabeth Merritt
A recent discussion thread on Museum Junction debated whether the Museum of Ice Cream really counts as a museum. I’m interested in why they choose to …
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Carrying On Isabella's Legacy, Gardner Museum Celebrates Its Artists-In-Residence
wbur.org - Jenn Stanley
When Rachel Perry was artist-in-residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 2014, she spent a lot of time just looking. Each of the 31 days …
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How Stanford Used Art to Transform its Hospital
artworkarchive.com
Interactive digital artwork by OUVA, digital display, 108 x 132 inches, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. Photo courtesy of Stanford …
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Inmates Annotate an Archive of Prison Photos With Their Own Stories
hyperallergic.com - Bridget Quinn
Harold Meeks and Nigel Poor, “Gym Profile 7-15-75” (2013), inkjet print, with ink notations (image courtesy Nigel Poor, with thanks to Warden Ron …
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Science
The Veterinarian Will See Your Dinosaur Now
The New York Times - Cara Giaimo
Dinosaurs loom large in the human imagination, towering above the treetops, bringing down prey and reigning over the ancient land, sea and sky. In real life, though, things weren’t always so spectacular.
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Columbus Day
Native American museum director: Columbus was far from the first to discover America
USA TODAY - Kevin Gover
Scores of cities and a growing number of states are renaming Columbus Day to honor the history and cultures of America's indigenous peoples. For decades, Americans have marked the second Monday in October
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Facebook
More Nonprofits Use Facebook Than Have A Website: Global NGO Report
Forbes - Chris Strub
Nine in ten nonprofits around the world regularly use social media to engage their supporters and donors, according to the newly released Global NGO Tech Report produced by Nonprofit Tech For Good. Organizations’
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Nantucket
Mystic Chords of Memory: Writing workshops as museum creative aging programs
aam-us.org - Bill Tramposch, 2019 Aroha Fellow for Museums and Creative Aging, American Alliance of Museums
Nearly a career ago, I visited a mentor and friend at the historical society he directed on Saturday afternoon. As we sat in his office chatting, I …
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Art
Tracing an object’s troubled history
du.edu - Greg Glasgow
For six years, beginning in 2000, Jewish refugee Maria Altmann fought the Austrian government in court, trying to reclaim five paintings by Austrian …
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Money
5 CEOs of Big Foundations Pledge to Do More to Help Charities Pay Overhead
philanthropy.com - Maria Di Mento
Julia Stasch, who last week stepped down as head of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, said the presidents hoped that by setting an …
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Louvre
Louvre director plots great collections reshuffle
theartnewspaper.com - Vincent Noce
Jean-Luc Martinez will complete the most important building project of his time as director of the Louvre on 8 October—but the public will not see …
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Museums
Museum of the Bible quietly replaces questioned artifact
The Washington Post - By Ken Miller | AP
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Museum of the Bible in Washington quietly replaced an artifact purported to be one of a handful of miniature Bibles that a NASA astronaut carried to the moon in 1971 after an expert
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Edgar Allan Poe
The Poe Museum celebrates the life of Richmond’s favorite spooky scribe with 'unhappy hours' and resident black cats | Roadtrippers
roadtrippers.com - Alexandra Charitan
It’s hard to travel anywhere along the East Coast and not run into Edgar Allan Poe. Although seemingly obsessed with death, the Master of the Macabre …
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Museums
The museum revamp that 'makes works of art sing'
BBC News - Laurence Cawley
A two-year refurbishment of the main gallery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge "makes the works of art sing", a director has said. The public will be welcomed back inside the museum from Monday, last-minute
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Over 200 Artists and Scholars Urge MoMA and Board Member to Divest from Private Prison Companies
hyperallergic.com - Hakim Bishara
Exterior view of The Museum of Modern Art on 53rd Street (courtesy MoMA, © 2017 Diller Scofidio + Renfro)Over 200 prominent artists, scholars, and …
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Brooklyn Museum Visitor Dies After Trying to Slide Down Third-Floor Banister
hyperallergic.com - Hakim Bishara
The Brooklyn Museum, New York (photo by Jules Antonio/Flickr)A visitor to the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday, October 6, fell to his death while sliding …
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Art
How Montana's Tippet Rise showcases artistic achievement amid natural beauty
pbs.org - Jeffrey Brown
Let's now take a trek to a destination for art and music in rural Montana. The Tippet Rise Art Center, which recently wrapped up its fourth summer …
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Art Galleries
In Open Letter, 220 Artists, Academics, Curators Denounce MoMA's 'Connections to Mass Incarceration,' Call Out Trustee -
artnews.com - Alex Greenberger
On Thursday, the Museum of Modern Art in New York unveiled the result of a $450 million renovation campaign that promised a number of …
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U.S. Marines
Military museums grapple with a mission that’s only getting more complex
The Washington Post
Just as the building’s design prompts different readings, the museum’s storytelling serves varying purposes, depending on the visitor. Veterans often see the museum, near Marine Corps Base Quantico, as
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Art
Atlanta HBCUs Train Next Generation Of African American Art Curators
GPB News - Rickey Bevington , Sophia Saliby
If you go into an art museum in North America, chances are the staff, the curators and the directors are going to be white.In 2015, an Andrew W. …
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Librarianship
Librarians Are Secretly the Funnest People Alive
electricliterature.com - Jo Lou
Librarians from Invercargill, New Zealand had a “totally impromptu, definitely not planned” photo shoot spoofing The Hollywood Reporter’s The …
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Management
Intangible heritage, a challenge for management and collection policy - ICOM
icom.museum
The conference is organised by ICOM SEE in partnership with ICOM Croatia, COMCOL, ICOM Slovenia and INTERCOM. Local partners are Ethnographic Museum …
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Art
This art museum tour starts with a group cheer: ‘Dismantle the patriarchy!’
Los Angeles Times - Sharon Mizota
Artemisia Gentileschi had a “unicorn dad.” Painter Orazio Gentileschi was one of the few 17th century Italian men who thought his daughter should have an education. When the painting tutor he hired, Agostino
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Museums
Can institutions tell their own stories? Yes, if they learn to think like a museum.
The Washington Post
But healthy institutions don’t neglect their past — they understand it both as a resource and an opportunity. Corporations may need a historian to research the origins of a trademarked symbol or to defend
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San Francisco, CA
LGBTQ History Month: Diaries reveal hidden worlds for museums
ebar.com - by Matthew S. Bajko
Editor's note: This is the second in a five-part series for LGBTQ History Month featuring objects that one day could be exhibited in a new, …
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Natural History
This clever short film puts humanity in a museum, and our exhibit is garbage
Fast Company - KC Ifeanyi
Why we care: Last year, Belvedere Vodka launched an initiative with singer and actor Janelle Monáe to help uplift and showcase filmmakers who aren’t of the male and/or white persuasion. The campaign, Beautiful
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Museums
How Museums Help Diverse Nations Reimagine Themselves
zocalopublicsquare.org - by Elizabeth Weiser | October 10, 2019
Museums are often dismissed as irrelevant diversions, as places apart, as tombs for pasts that don’t have much to do with the present. But I study the …
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Science
Ruff Family Science: Using Media to Support Multi-Generational Science Learning
joanganzcooneycenter.org
Asha and her 6-year-old daughter, Zara, take deep breaths and blow onto the sails of their sail cars. The cars roll away…quickly at first before …
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Leadership
These are the questions all leaders should regularly ask themselves
Fast Company - Stephanie Mehta
Our advice columnist takes on the universal question of what makes a great leader. Editor’s Note: Each week Maynard Webb, former CEO of LiveOps and the former COO of eBay, will offer candid, practical,
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The Eight Impressionist Exhibitions From 1874-1886
thoughtco.com - Beth Gersh-Nesic
Dec 1, 2017