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Invitation to join "Museums and Change" on Thursday 10/27 at 12:30pm ET on "Why Is Change So Hard?"

  • 1.  Invitation to join "Museums and Change" on Thursday 10/27 at 12:30pm ET on "Why Is Change So Hard?"

    Posted 10-20-2022 06:25 PM

    "Why is Change So Hard?"


    The American museum community has been talking for almost thirty years about its need for fundamental change (sometimes described loosely as a "paradigm shift").  A lot has changed, but museum scholar Jay Rounds argues that key fundamentals of current museum practice and theory remain rooted in the core ideas of the old paradigm that emerged around 125 years ago. Based on twenty-five years of research in the history of American museums, Rounds will discuss how looking backward to previous episodes of fundamental change in museums can help us understand where we are today, and what is needed to create the next paradigm.


    Jay Rounds is a long-time student of American museums. He received his PhD in the anthropology of complex organizations from UCLA in 1979, and was a post-doctoral fellow in organizations theory at Stanford University. He has studied processes of long-term change in organizational systems in such diverse fields as American prison reform and educational theory. After fifteen years of professional practice in museums and historical organizations, he spent twenty years as founding director of the Graduate Program in Museum Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. In 2014 he was the recipient of the Distinguished Career Achievement Award of the Association of Midwest Museums


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    We look forward to seeing you next Thursday!

    Avi Decter, Eric Siegel, Ken Yellis
    AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo, Baltimore, May 16-19, 2024, click to learn more


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