Museum Education Roundtable

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Sharing, teaching, listening, shaping. Museum Education Roundtable inspires innovative thinking for the field through engagement with scholarly and practice-based content explored in the Journal of Museum Education. https://www.museumedu.org/

On the blog! Dr. Marta Torres shares her perspective on serving as a MER board member and the space it has given her to build community, grow professionally, and think deeply about museum education. Curious about joining the MER Board of Directors? Learn more and apply on our website by May 22nd!

Dr. Marta Torres wears a white shirt and looks over her shoulder while standing in front of decorative windows. The text reads: “On the Blog - Five Years, Full Circle.”

"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...

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.”

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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to write for the Journal of Museum Education? What’s it like to take an article from proposal to publishing? Join us for a virtual panel of authors published in the JME and on the MER blog discussing their work & the process of getting published.

JME/MER Author Panel: June 19, 7pm EDT 
Moderated by MER President, Dr. Alexandra Morris. Panelists include: 
Max Cawley, Museum of Life and Science
Jessica Fuentes, Glasstire
Michelle Moon, Co-editor of the JME, Saltworks Interpretive Consulting

Happening soon! At 1pm PDT, MER board memebrs Wade Berger and Nenette Luarca-Shoaf are presenting "The Future of Professional Organizations in Museum Education" at AAM. Don't miss this conversation amongst membership-based organizations for museum professionals and how they serve the field.

The MER logo, stylized bold pink quotation marks, overlaps with the logo for the 2025 AAM Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo, the words "Museums & Trust," where the ampersand is stylized in a white and blue ceramic pattern. Headshots of MER Board Members Wade Berger, a white man with short brown hair and a beard, and Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, a woman of color with light skin, brown hair, and brown eyes, are beside the title of their presentation, "The Future of Professional Organizations in Museum Education."

Did you catch MER board member Asami Robledo-Allen Yamamoto's AAM presentation on inclusive and accurate translations in museums? We'd love to hear what you learned and what you're taking away from this session and your time at the 2025 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo.

The MER logo, stylized bold pink quotation marks, overlaps with the logo for the 2025 AAM Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo, the words "Museums & Trust," where the ampersand is stylized in a white and blue ceramic pattern. A headshot of MER Board Member Asami Robledo-Allen Yamamoto, a woman with light skin, long brown hair, and brown eyes, is beside the title of her presentation, "A Museum that Can Only Speak English is not a Museum: Translating Cultures."