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/

White text on gray background reads: "Coming soon... MER Member Directory! Connect with roughly 400 other members from around the world." Illustration shows people connected by lines and talking to one another.
A screenshot of the MER Board during a zoom meeting is in the center of a dark purple graphic with the text, “Join the Board of Directors. MER is recruiting new board members to serve 2026-2029. Deadline Extended: May 29, 2026.”
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.”
Image of minimalist map of the globe with southern hemisphere highlighted in red, surrounded by blue ocean. Image sits on gray background with text reading "Call for Papers, Rethinking Museum Education from the Global South, Deadline: June 15, 2026"
A screenshot of the MER Board during a zoom meeting is in the center of a light purple graphic with the text, "Join the Board of Directors. MER is recruiting new board members to serve 2026-2029. Deadline: May 22, 2026."
A teal graphic says, “Shape the future of MER! The MER membership survey is now available. Fill out the survey by February 2nd and be entered to win a free year of MER membership plus access to the JME.”
Same details as in the post- Happy Hour on September 29, 2025, 5-7pm EDT at Asset (329 Columbus Ave, New York NY 10023)
Journal of Museum Education | 51.3 | Fall 2026 Call for Papers: Trans Museology Deadline: October 15, 2025
The MER logo, stylized quotation marks, appears with the colors of the Pan-African flag. Underneath the quotation marks are the words, "Juneteenth: Freedom Day".
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
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."
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."
The graphic consists of the stylized MER quotation marks and the words, "Journal of Museum Education | 50.1: Free Article. "Civic Wellness: How COPA’s Collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago Is Facilitating Valuable Investigative Skills in Police Accountability" by Charlotte Seiler, Ashlee Castillo, & Ephraim Eaddy."
A photo of Made By Us participants, two young men of color and two young women of color, stand in front of a the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, is in the center of the graphic. The text above and below the image reads, "Journal of Museum Education, 50.1 | Civic Wellness: ON THE BLOG- Gen Z Perspective: How Museums Can Cultivate Civic Wellness."
A screenshot of the MER Board during a zoom meeting is in the center of a graphic with the text, "2025/26 RECRUITMENT. Join the MER Board: The Board is in search of new members to serve 2025-2028."
A graphic with the words, "Journal of Museum Education | 50.1: Civic Wellness" along the left edge, as if printed on the spine of a publication. The main focus of the graphic depicts a small crowd of various body types in silhouette, listening to an educator in silhouette, who is gesturing toward a reproduction of Henry Louis Stephens' untitled watercolor of an older Black man with white hair, wearing red, white, and blue clothes, reading a newspaper with the headline, "Presidential Proclamation/Slavery". In the foreground is the silhouette of a young boy sitting on a bench, reading a book, beside the Museum Education Roundtable logo, which consists of the name of the organization alongside stylized quotation marks.