Museum Education Roundtable

Excited for folks to connect with us and the good people over at @nycmer.bsky.social !

Connect with other museum educators and professionals, socialize with your peers, and learn more about what MER and NYCMER have on offer for museum lovers like you.

Asset is located at 329 Columbus Ave, New York NY 10023.

Same details as in the post- Happy Hour on September 29, 2025, 5-7pm EDT at Asset (329 Columbus Ave, New York NY 10023)

Calling all MER New Yorkers!

Join members of Museum Education Roundtable and NYC Museum Educators Roundtable for a happy hour on Monday, September 29th, 5-7pm at Asset.

I am co-editing the Trans Museology issue with @magmidd.bsky.social ! Please share with your circles and consider submitting for this incredibly important issue!

Spread the word!

Consider pitching an article showcasing innovative strategies, describing case studies, and research that advance linguistic equity in museums.

Potential topics include:
-Global perspectives on multilingual museums
-Multilingual access programs & evaluation
-Second language acquisition in museum learning
-Indigenous languages & culturally sustaining pedagogy
-Linguistic diversity beyond programming
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From Black English to Sign Language, from code-switching to translanguaging, we want to hear how museums around the world are moving beyond monolingual norms and embracing multilingual approaches in programs, interpretation, and institutional culture.
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For Translating Museum Education

We’re seeking articles on multilingualism in museum education for a special issue exploring how linguistic diversity transforms visitor engagement and belonging.

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We welcome challenges, critiques, provocations, and confrontations.

Potential topics include:
-Trans methodology
-Trans labor in museums
-New strategies for interpreting trans content
-Intersections with race, indigeneity, disability
-Anti-colonial approaches

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There's a gulf between the theory discussed in dissertations and the practice conducted within museum walls. We seek to bridge this gap by inviting a variety of trans museum professionals to offer the insights they have gleaned in their careers and their visions for the future of museum practice. ⬇️

For Trans Museology:

We’re seeking articles on trans methodologies in museum education for a special issue, which will put a variety of perspectives from transgender museum professionals in conversation with one another.

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Journal of Museum Education | 51.3 | Fall 2026 Call for Papers: Trans Museology Deadline: October 15, 2025

Journal of Museum Education | 51.4 | Winter 2026 Call for Papers: Translating Museum Education Deadline: October 31, 2025

We've got active two calls for papers out now!

Trans Museology: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...

Translating Museum Education: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...

Freelance Facilitators - GEM We are looking to expand our learning programme and work with a group of freelance facilitators who have experience of delivering History workshops in a school and/or heritage setting. We […]

New #job Freelance Facilitators @thelondonarchives.bsky.social

Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/freelan...

Apply by Mon 8 September 2025

#GEMJobs #Freelance #FreelanceJobs #EducationJobs #MuseumEducation #MuseumLearning #MuseumEd

What a great way to connect with the community!

Come work with a group of passionate museum educators! Happy to answer any questions about the position:

This position plays an essential role in promoting the organization and its publication, meeting the needs of MER members, supporting and advancing MER’s equity and inclusion work, and, in doing so, furthering scholarship in the field of museum education.

The OM attends monthly virtual Sustainability Team meetings, quarterly board meetings, and an annual retreat (virtual or in-person), reporting on membership analytics, and supporting other MER projects.

The role reports to the President of the MER Board of Directors, and is a highly collaborative position that liaises with other board members, the JME’s publisher (Taylor & Francis) and paid contractors (including the JME Co-Editors and especially with the Communications Manager).

The Museum Education Roundtable (MER) seeks a part time contract Operations Manager (OM). This role oversees the organization’s operational activities, administrative functions, and contributes to its membership strategy which supports MER’s primary product: the Journal of Museum Education (JME).

MER is hiring! We're seeking an Operations Manager to begin work with us in September. Applications are due 11:59pm ET on Friday, August 22, 2025, for this remote, part-time position.

Learn more and apply at www.museumedu.org/about/jobs/.

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Photographs of early #Juneteenth celebrations across Texas and beyond: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/juneteenth-photographs #JuneteenthDay #juneteenth2021

At 98, the Grandmother of Juneteenth Still Has Work to Do “When he calls me, I don’t plan to be in no rocking chair waiting for him," Opal Lee says. "Too much to be done.”

"You see someone who needs help, you help them. Tidy up yr corner of the world the best you can, and maybe someone else will see that and take their own actions, and if enough of us do that, at least some of the world becomes better." Hanif A. on Opal Lee:
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

The MER logo, stylized quotation marks, appears with the colors of the Pan-African flag. Underneath the quotation marks are the words, "Juneteenth: Freedom Day".

This #Juneteenth, we celebrate the museum educators who do the crucial work of cultivating, preserving, and sharing the history of Black struggle, liberation, and life in the United States. We hope today brings encouragement and fuel for the work ahead.

Learn more about Michelle at www.museumedu.org/journal/edit... and read her editorial pieces for the JME at www.tandfonline.com/author/Moon%....

She participates actively in the museum conversation through service to organizations including AASLH, where she serves on the Program Committee and chaired the 2021 conference, NCPH, AAM, ALHFAM, & others. She has served as guest lecturer and thesis advisor for a variety of museum studies programs.

She frequently writes and presents on making connections to people through culture, sense of place, and food history, and has published two books on the intersections of public history and food studies.

Michelle’s work has been dedicated to increasing museums’ usefulness and relevance to contemporary users through innovative, human-centered practice and advancement of equity initiatives.

Michelle is a creative museum professional and independent consultant with 20 years’ experience in institutions of art, culture and history. As an interpretive specialist, she has contributed to more than 20 major exhibitions of art, history, and culture.