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Curator sparks international dialogue on ivory in museums

Curator has published a special issue that tackles ivory in museums from a variety of perspectives. The push for total bans on movement of ivory in many countries, and many states in the...

Welcome to the Discussion

As the new Editor of Curator, I’m thrilled to launch the new CuratorJournal.org website alongside Issue 59.3, which is now available online. Here in the Discussion section of the website, you’ll find...

Interpretive Voice: A Review of Permanent Exhibition Interpretation at the Rijksmuseum

There has been an international movement that seems to be re-defining modes of display in many art museums. Traditionally, institutions would segregate their collections by discipline, e.g., European paintings...

Where are the objects? Why is this a museum? What allows us to claim special educational status for these charming play spaces?: Turning to Curator for answers

As a museum educator who has spent two decades thinking about object-based education, I found the shift to children’s museums challenging. Where are the objects? Why is this a...

“Think With Me:” David Carr’s Enduring Invitation

Beverly Sheppard, Marsha Semmel, and Carol Bossert David Wildon Carr (1945–2016) was recognized in the international cultural community as a scholar and instigator whose critical thinking challenged museum practitioners...

Found & Lost: The Biography of the Bio-Collection

Warwick Anderson In the early 1920s, young Louis Sullivan, collecting Polynesian skulls for the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, and the American Museum of Natural History, faced stiff competition...