backstory: Setting the Standard
One of the things I love about my job is that I work at not just a museum, but an academic museum.
I truly believe that academic museums are doing some of the most important museum work across the disciplines. At the end of June, I attended the annual conference of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG). A great interdisciplinary organization of which I am proud to be a board member, AAMG sets the standards for best practices in the field. This year, the conference was held at the University of Minnesota, which has three academic museums: the Weisman Art Museum (photo one: their director Lyndel King and me), the Bell Museum of Natural History (photo two: the Bell’s magnificent mammoth), and the Goldstein Museum of Design (photo three: the Goldstein’s current show). It was a jam-packed three days of hearing colleagues and students present on their ideas and their research. I always learn new things at this conference—mostly new ways of making what we do at the Neuberger even better.
Tracy Fitzpatrick, Director
Neuberger Museum of Art
Neuberger Museum of Art
AAMG 2019
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Mammoth on display at the Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota.
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Dior to Disco exhibition at the Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota.
