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Strategies for Working with Students with #ADHD and #Autism on Tours in Museums.

The Museums Arts and Culture Access Consortium has resources on their website, a blog, a calendar of events and a whole section on increasing opportunities for adults with autism at cultural institutions and may be worth reaching out to.

macaccess.org/ #globalmuseum #museums

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Some provocative ways to define a museum. New words, new stories, new players.

We all know what a museum is. Or at least we think we do. We do from our childhood, and we even have an official definition to which we can turn in times of uncertainty like the ones we are living through. However, is this enough?
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But the GAO’s recent work on #impoundment has proved more politically contentious, & under #Trump, it has been met w/fierce #Republican opposition.

In May, the #watchdog found that the admin wrongly blocked funds under a $5B program to build #EV charging stations, a component of the #Biden-era #bipartisan infrastructure #law that Trump sees as *wasteful*. In June, the #GAO determined the admin mishandled funding for #libraries & #museums, after Trump curtailed the agency overseeing the money.

If you love books or history, and are visiting London, then the British Library is a must see. Not only is entry free, but there's some amazing pieces of historic literature on exhibition.

It includes things like an original first edition copy of Shakespeare's plays, a letter from Jane Austen to her sister; Oscar Wilde's handwritten draft of The Importance of Being Earnest; the handwritten draft of Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition sketch; John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for Strawberry Fields Forever; and a little document called the Magna Carta.

And that's just some of the documents, books, manuscripts, and more on display.

#library #book #books #history #museum #museums #Beatles #TheBeatles #literature #Shakespeare #JohnLennon #MontyPython #OscareWilde #London