As the year-end approaches all kinds of American museums are grappling with how they can best respond to recent challenges--professional, economic, and communal. Avi Decter and Michelle Moon will discuss the need for institutions to think, plan, and act strategically: now is the time for museums to focus on a few fundamental priorities and to assess where they are and where they might go in 2026. Join us for a chance to reflect and dream!
Avi Decter, principal of History Now, is an interpretive planner known for programs and exhibits on difficult subjects: labor unrest, the American Civil War, and the Holocaust. Over the years, Avi has helped to plan and develop a number of new museums, ranging from The Jewish Museum of Maryland in Baltimore to the Louisville Slugger Museum and Visitor Center in Louisville, KY. He is the author of two books on American Jewish history and is the co-editor, with Marsha Semmel and Ken Yellis, of Change Is Required: Preparing for the Post-Pandemic Museum (2022).
Michelle Moon is the principal of Saltworks Interpretive Consulting, where she develops content that creates lasting connections between people, places, and ideas. Recent clients range from the Huntington Library in Pasadena, CA to the Roebling Museum in Trenton, NJ. Michelle has served in leadership positions at the Tenement Museum in New York, the Newark Museum of Art, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem MA, and Strawberry Banke in Portsmouth, NH. She is co-editor of the Journal of Museum Education, co-author of Public History and the Food Movement, and author of Interpreting Food at Museums and Historic Sites.
Avi Decter is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: MUSEUMS AND CHANGE
Time: Dec 11, 2025 12:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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