Summer 2021
Muse Magazine
This year's national conference, themed Moving Forward, was an opportunity to come together, appreciate new developments, current practice and experimental progress. Here you will find some of the key takeaways to inspire all of those in our field who make the museum world more meaningful for everyone.
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CMA 2021, National Conference in Review
This issue of Muse is dedicated to Moving Forward, our 2021 National Conference which was held online across five days in early May. ...
In the Spotlight
Read about some of the latest developments in the museum sector.
CMA National Conference 2021: Overview
The Canadian Museum Association’s 2021 conference was unlike any held before, as it — like most aspects of working life in the past year — was indelibly altered by the pandemic. ...
Directors’ Symposium 2021
The Directors’ Symposium launched the conference with the theme “Leading in Times of Change,” and one speaker’s dramatic experience that “there is nothing worse than to be strangled in silence.” ...
CMA National Conference 2021: Keynotes
Summaries of this years keynote presentations featuring Pare Keiha, Emmanuel Kasarhérou and W. Richard West Jr. ...
Is there a Canadian museology?
I believe there is, though yet nascent, and serendipitously born of an unexpected source — it is growing from Indigenous nations and the implications of museum’s accepting diplomatic protocols, especially those around the significance of cultural object-entities ...
Building Digital Capacity with Digital Museums Canada
Digital Museums Canada (DMC) is helping museums and heritage organizations strengthen their digital presence now and into the future by investing in their online projects. Thanks to DMC’s enhanced website and streamlined application process, ...
Nous sommes Montréal, the poetic force of history
Nous sommes Montréal is an original project by Pointe-à-Callière, cité d’archéologie et d’histoire de Montréal directly connected with museum education, cultural mediation and the Museum’s civic action ...
Creative Green Tools: Fighting the Climate Crisis One Footprint at a Time
The Creative Green Tools (CG Tools), developed by UK-based charity Julie’s Bicycle, are a set of carbon calculation and reporting tools specifically for the creative industries. Used by over 3,000 organisations across 50 countries, ...
Defining our Future
When the country went into lockdown on March 13, 2020, most Canadians thought that they’d be settling in for a few weeks of teleworking. More than a year later, most of the world is still struggling to extricate itself from ...
YCW Wage Guide: Information about wages for YCW employers and employees
The Canadian Museums Association’s (CMA) efforts on the Young Canada Works (YCW) program support our strategic objective to strengthen the museum workforce today and for the future. The program includes two major streams: ...
The submarine Onondaga
Come aboard the Onondaga, Canada’s first publicly accessible submarine, and learn what life was like for the 70 men aboard this 90-metre behemoth ...