Museum Association of New York

Join us as a speaker in Ithaca next April as we discuss how we can evaluate our internal structures to better understand our organization, define our audiences, and serve our communities. Submit your proposals for conference sessions, workshops, panel discussions, facilitated discussions, and peer-to-peer learning experiences for the 2025 annual conference "Cultivating Community: Looking In, Reaching Out." Learn more and submit a session proposal by Friday, November 8. https://buff.ly/3SQSl61 #MANY2025

Nominate your museum or museum colleague for an Award of Distinction! MANY’s Awards of Distinction recognize the exceptional achievements of New York’s museums and museum professionals with an Award of Distinction. Awards celebrate museums and honor museum professionals who create transformative experiences for visitors, shape innovative programs, and use collections to tell the stories of everyone who calls New York home. Any museum or individual may nominate an organization, person(s), or project completed in 2024 at a museum, heritage, or cultural organization in New York State. Nomination of oneself or one’s organization is permissible and encouraged. Nominations are due Monday, December 2 by 5 PM Award recipients will be recognized on Monday, April 7 at the 2025 annual conference "Cultivating Community: Looking In, Reaching Out" in Ithaca, NY. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3MyjRmS #MANY2025 #NYSmuseums

The NYS subway turns 120 years old this month aand the New York Transit Museum is reflecting on what this milestone means to The Big Apple. The museum in Downtown Brooklyn has launched a new exhibition, “The Subway Is…,” in honor of the subway’s birthday and intends to run it for at least a year. Opened last month, the exhibit is meant to be as open-ended as the ellipsis in its title: the subway is so crucial to New York’s history, development, identity, and culture that it means many things to different people. #NYSmuseums

Happy #MuseumJobMonday! Here are some of the latest job opportunities posted to the MANY job board. - Executive Director, Museum Association of New York - Director of Advancement, The Buffalo History Museum - Executive Director, Preservation Long Island - Deputy Director, Museum Hue - Executive Director, Historic House Trust of New York City - Director of Education and Community Engagement, Albany Institute of History & Art Learn more about these jobs and explore more https://lnkd.in/eZmPuP3m #MuseumJobs #NYSmuseums

Submit a session proposal for #MANY2025! Submit your proposals for conference sessions, workshops, panel discussions, facilitated discussions, and peer-to-peer learning experiences for the 2025 annual conference Cultivating Community: Looking In, Reaching Out. Presentations by individuals from institutions of all sizes, all stages of their careers, and from all disciplines are welcome to submit a proposal. We welcome proposals from graduate and undergraduate students in museum studies, public history, art history, non-profit administration and other relevant fields for ignite style presentations.  Industry partners are welcome to submit proposals only if they include a museum partner and share how the partners worked together to achieve success. Learn more and submit by November 8: https://lnkd.in/eZ9MK6Hy #NYSmuseums

Join us on Friday, October 18 from 12 to 1:30 PM EST for our next webinar: What's in a name? (and what we learned about changing one) The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, opened to the public in June 2023, after being closed for nearly four years for a development and expansion project. Just down the road in Utica, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute worked concurrently on a new Campus Master Plan and a new brand, resulting in what is now the new Munson. This webinar will offer practical information about the process of remaking museums, from a sharpened focus on community to a new name, a new graphic identity, and a new campus. Find out how the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and the Munson Museum of Art (re)introduced their new identities to their staff, their city, and the world, along with tales of what was learned in the process. Webinar is free; advance registration required. Virtual programs are made possible by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day honors Native Americans, their resilience, and their contributions to US society in the face of generations of assimilation, discrimination, and genocide. New York is—and always has been—a Native place. While land acknowledgments should be the first step towards an actionable plan for an institution to honor and connect with the tribal representation in their area, it is not a call to action in and of itself. Its action is to combat erasure and the colonial myth that Indigenous peoples exist only in the past. We recommend creating an action plan highlighting the concrete steps you plan to take to support Indigenous communities into the future. Images 1. Ganondagan State Historic Site 2. Akwesasne Cultural Center 3. Skä•noñh Great Law of Peace Center 4. Seneca Iroquois National Museum 5. Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, NYC 6. Native New York exhibition at SMAI, NYC

The Studio Museum in Harlem has announced plans for the grand opening of its new 125th Street home. The building will welcome visitors next fall after closing in 2018 to embark on the multimillion-dollar expansion project. The first exhibition will feature the work of late artist and activist Tom Lloyd, whose sculptures appeared in the museum’s inaugural show in 1968, staged at a rented Fifth Avenue loft. #NYSmuseums https://lnkd.in/ezj_SU5m

Earlier this month, a $3.9 million restoration project began for the three historic houses at Brooklyn's Weeksville Heritage Center. The project is focused on the Hunterfly Road Houses—named for a now-gone thoroughfare they were built to face—and is managed by the New York City Department of Design and Construction for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. This will be the most comprehensive restoration to the structural integrity of the houses since the site opened as a museum in 2005. #NYSmuseums

The George Eastman Museum is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a special exhibition, "Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum." #NYSmuseums