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VOLUME 19 Applying Research to Children’S Museum Exhibits Number 4 (Winter 2005) Digital Copy Only — Mary Sinker Hand to Hand Issue Index Two Museums and a Design Firm: Thinking about How We Design Exhibits Now—Developed by Kate Marciniec, Boston Children’s Museum; Interviewees: Karima Grant, ImagiNation Afrika; Maeryta Medrano, AIA, Gyroscope Inc.; Stephen Wisniewski, PhD, Flint Children’s Museum HAND TO HAND ISSUE INDEX Back to Basics: Shutdown Offers Time for Exhibit Upgrades QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ACM and Reaffirmation—Beth Whisman, Children’s Discovery INDEX LISTED CURRENT TO 1986 Museum Staying Out Front (While Behind-the-Scenes Exhibit Work Goes on)—Sharon Vegh Williams, North Country Children’s VOLUME 34 Museum Number 2 (February 2021) Climate Action Heroes: New Museum Uses Small Exhibit to Forged in Fire: New Models Create Broad Digital Experiences—Langley Lease, National Food Pantry Fulfills a Need and Opens a World of Children’s Museum Possibilities—Steve Long, Children’s Museum of the East End Exhibit Fabrication and Installation Challenges during Doubling Down on DEI—Dianne Krizan, Minnesota Children’s COVID—Cathlin Bradley, Kubik Maltbie, Inc. Museum What’s Different about This Picture: Laying the (New) Learning through and about Social Media—PAPALOTE Staff Groundwork for Design—Alissa Rupp, FAIA, Frame | Integrative Taking Science Learning to New Places and People—Neil H. Design Strategies Gordon, The Discovery Museum Supporting Children’s Learning When and How They Need OLUME it—Patti Reiss, Mississippi Children’s Museum V 33 Look and Listen: Taking a Chance on New Partnerships— Number 4 (August 2020) Brian King, Betty Brinn Children’s Museum COVID-19: Stories from the Field Expanding the Earned Income Menu: Camps, Seasonal Fun, Children’s Museums Surviving the Pandemic: Insights from Family Play—Beth Fitzgerald, The Magic House, St. Louis Three Leaders—Interviewer: Peter Olson, Region 5 Children’s Children’s Museum Museum; Interviewees: Stephanie Hill Wilchfort, Brooklyn Programs Multiply As Reach Expands—Joe Cox, Museum of Children’s Museum; Tanya Durand, Greentrike; and Tammie Discovery and Science Kahn, Children’s Museum Houston Building a Bigger Purpose—Kerry Falwell, Explorations V After I Hung Up... Children’s Museum I Had Been Planning, But Instead…— Suzanne LeBlanc, Welcoming the Neighbors—Carol Tang, PhD, Children’s Long Island Children’s Museum Creativity Museum Racers, Start Your Engines—Traci Buckner, Akron The Future of Membership Programs—Q&A with Jane Children’s Museum Greenthal, Harvard Business School Association of Northern The “New Normal” Is Not Normal—Sunnee O’Rork, California Community Partners i.d.e.a. Museum Cross-Institutional Study of Virtual Programming: What Do Recalibrating—Carol Scott, Children’s Discovery Museum of Parents Want Now?—Scott Burg & Claire Quimby, Rockman et the Desert al Buffering the Loss—Charlie Walter, Mayborn Museum An Ongoing Journey of Healing—Julia Bland, Louisiana Complex Children’s Museum A Ride with Friends on the Corona-Coaster—Roxane The Future of Work: Putting Pivots into Practice and Hill, Wonderscope Children’s Museum Examining How We Support Staff—Kyrstin Hill, Creative This Is It—Deb Gilpin, Madison Children’s Museum Discovery Museum FOMO: Missing the Joy of Engagement—Beth Ann Museum Guild 2021—Tara MacDougall, Discovery Center at Balalaos, Long Island Children’s Museum Murfree Spring My Kitchen Table—Hannah Hausman, Santa Fe Children’s Why Do We Need All This Office Space Now?—Collette Museum Michaud, Children’s Museum of Sonoma County Nothing Yet to Close: Emerging Museums Pause and Regroup—Tres Ross, Children’s Museum of the Mid-Ohio Valley; Number 1 (November 2020) Audie Dennis, Creative Learning Alliance; Corrie Holloway, Glacier Exhibit Planning in 2020: Thinking Now about Where We Children’s Museum; Dr. Kirsti Abbott, The University of New Hope to Be in the Future England Boilerhouse Discovery Space; Michael Shanklin, Creating a World beyond This One—Megan Dickerson, with kidSTREAM, Ventura County’s Children’s Museum Panca, The New Children’s Museum Building Relationships through a Pandemic—Alix Tonsgard and A Novel Approach to Exhibit Interactives amid the Laura Diaz, DuPage Children’s Museum Pandemic—Melissa Pederson and Stephanie Eddleman, The The National Struggle with Unknowingness: Thoughts from a Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Facilities Director on Reopening—Luke Schultz, Madison Creating the ‘Wow-Aha!’ Exhibit: An interview with Paul Children’s Museum Orselli, POW!—Interviewer: Mary Maher, Hand to Hand Working from Home for a Museum with No Visitors: Page 1 of 19 Hand to Hand Issue Index Front-Line Staff Stories from DISCOVERY Children’s What Are the Top HR Issues We Face? Marijuana and Living Museum—Mary Maher, Hand to Hand Wage—Annie Rosenstock, DuPage Children’s Museum, Catherine Patyk, Chicago Children’s Museum, Cheryl Number 3 (June 2020) Crawford, Kohl Children’s Museum Tighten Up: Streamlining Museum Operations Staff: the Best Investment You Can Make—Karyn Flynn, Bay Thriving (in a Downturn)—Charlie Trautmann, Sciencenter Area Discovery Museum From Protests to Virus: Operational Changes with An Eye on Everything You Wanted to Know about Tough HR Issues Survival—Serena Fan Hong Kong Children’s Discovery Museum (But Were Afraid to Ask Using Your Real Name)—Q&A Navigating with Knowledge: Using Data Strategically to with Paula Burdge, The Magic House, St. Louis Children’s Maximize Impacts and Benefits—John W. Jacobsen with Laura Museum and Adam Woodworth, Children’s Museum in Oak Roberts, David Ellis, George Hein, and Lynn Baum Lawn AMI: What We Learned about Data—Collecting It, Analyzing Exploring the Role of Children’s Museums as Community It, Using It—Q&A with Jane Bard, CEO Children’s Museum of Anchors—Nicole R. Rivera, EdD, North Central College and New Hampshire Sarah Wolf, Discovery Center Museum Positioning for Growth: Thanksgiving Point Restructures to Ensure Long-Term Sustainability—Stephen Ashton, PhD, Gary VOLUME 32 Hyatt, Lorie Millward, and Mike Washburn, Thanksgiving Point Number 4 (August 2019) Operating in Five Locations Since Opening in 2006 Has The Big Role of Children’s Museums in Small Taught Us Flexibility—Lisa Van Deman and Melanie Hatz Communities Levinson, Kidzu Children’s Museum Small Town Dreams Big—Sharon Vegh Williams, PhD, North Contingency Planning, Multiple Budget Scenarios, and Country Children’s Museum Creative Operating Models: Then, Now, and Always—Patty Transformation and Community in a Small Town—Kathy Belmonte Hands On Children’s Museum Parham, The Children’s Playhouse Museum Profile: Fairbanks Children’s Museum Number 2 (February 2020) Partnerships and Progress in the Secret City—Beth Shea The Responsive Children’s Museum Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge XOXO: The Healing Power of Love and Forgiveness—Anne Weaning off the Angels: A Small Museum Grows through Fullenkamp, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Partnerships—Wendy Gregory, AHA! A Hands-on Adventure, Embracing the Open Road: Opportunities in Outreach— A Children’s Museum Laurel Zhang, Exploration Place Museum Profile: The Children’s Museum of the Brazos Valley Inside/Outside: Mothers and Children Recover Together— Growing a Children’s Museum—Sunny Spicer, KidTime Anne Mannell, Tulsa Children’s Museum Discovery Lab Children’s Museum, and Alissa Rupp, FAIA Families Together: Thirty-Eight Years of Helping Families Institute of Museum and Library Services Creates Program Heal—An Interview with Heidi Brinig Director, Families Together, Support for Small Museums—Q&A with Reagan Moore and Providence Children’s Museum. Interviewer: Robin Meisner Boston Mark Feitl, Museum Program Officers, IMLS Children’s Museum Museum Profile: Cheshire Children’s Museum Before We Lose Them: Rekindling the Learning Spark in Children’s Museum Research Network Update: Supporting Middle Schoolers—Claire M. Flynn, Long Island Children’s Social and Emotional Development in Children’s Museum Museums—Nicole R. Rivera, EdD, North Central College and Playing Just Like Everybody Else: Art Programs Brighten Alix Tonsgard, DuPage Children’s Museum Hospital Stays—Emily Munro, Children’s Museum of Manhattan Disruptive Innovation: Responding to Extraordinary Need— Number 3 (April 2019) Q&A with Gretchen Wilson-Prangley, Founder and CEO, Play Africa STEM The Role of Children’s Museums in Communities: Equity and STEM in Children’s Museums—Charlie Trautmann, PhD, and Access—Nicole R. Rivera, EdD, North Central College and Janna Doherty, Museum of Science, Boston Stephanie Bynum, Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago In Appreciation: A Tribute to Michael Spock Interview with Chris Ferrie Number 1 (November 2019) Playing at the Intersections—Jenni Martin, Children’s Discovery HR Museum of San Jose Playing Together: Engaging Part-Time Floor Staff in Co- Creating a STEM Learning Ecosystem: An Interview with Creating the Museum—Rebecca Shulman Herz and Kristin Dennis Schatz, Pacific Science Center—Interviewed by Vannatta, Peoria PlayHouse Children’s Museum Marcos Stafne, Montshire Museum of Science Ask [the Right] Questions, Gather [Honest] Answers…And Learning to Play, with Dinosaurs—Professor Phillip Lars Then What?—Michael Shanklin, Explore! Children’s Manning and Dr. Victoria Margaret Egerton, The Children’s Museum Museum of Indianapolis HR: Leadership’s First Cousin—An Interview with Anne STEM and Children’s Museums: Better Together—Darrell Ackerson and Joan Baldwin, co-authors, Leadership Matters, Porcello, PhD, Children’s Creativity Museum, and Ali Jackson, the book and the blog; Interviewed by Genevieve Nadler Sciencenter Thomas, Knock Knock Children’s Museum The Evolution
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