Fall 2020
Muse Magazine
Social change is on everyone’s mind. At the heart of a just and knowledgeable society, how can museums educate and inspire?
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Facing multiple crises all at once
Over the past several months, a number of trying challenges all around the world have been impacting...
Summerside Armoury to get $250K from the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund
The Summerside Armoury, in Prince Edward Island, will be getting $250,000 worth of support through...
CMA hires Reconciliation Program Director
In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action #67, the CMA is working closely with its...
Reconsidering Museums, an introduction
The Canadian Museums Association (CMA) is extremely proud to work in collaboration with our provincial and territorial...
The post pandemic museum
Museums in post pandemic time are starting to see daylight as they re-open their doors...
Community authors tell their own stories
As museums across Canada take steps to address racial inequity, they’re often guided by a fundamentally important lesson...
Canada’s institutional racism problem is also embedded in its museums — how can we address it?
There seems to be a moment of reckoning on institutional racism in Canada that is taking place across several sectors...
Black Lives Matter and the imperative to transform museums
As museum professionals, we like to imagine that our institutions are held high in regard as “trusted tellers of truth”...
An eloquent collection: the intangible heritage of the Museum of Living Memory
UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage...
#LoveLougheedGardens Digital fundraising for success
During the COVID-19 lockdown, Lougheed House National and Provincial Historic Site in central Calgary developed a successful...
Interview with Ry Moran
Ry Moran, an accomplished, Indigenous leader in the cultural sector, is one of Canada’s most passionate advocates for reconciliation...
Widening our scope for the 21st century
We all work in an incredible industry; exploring and educating on art, history, culture...
Young Canada Works: The wrap-up
If your museum hired a youth participant this year under the Young Canada Works (YCW) program, you may be thinking about...
Gothic Harp
In 1639, two Ursuline nuns sailed to Canada with Mother Marie of the Incarnation. One of them, a talented musician...