The following is a message from the Institute of Museum and Library Services
and the American Association of Museums:
MUSEUMS CELEBRATE FREEDOM:
Your Participation Helps Tell the Story
The Institute of Museum Services and the American Association of Museums
have heard from museums around the country about the importance of being
part of community activities on and around September 11th, 2002. Now we
need to hear from individual institutions about what they are planning to
do.
The idea of an initiative that would involve the whole of the museum
community celebrating the importance of America's freedom began on January
14, 2002 at a meeting of museum professionals convened to focus on Museums
in an Age of Uncertainty. Thirty-two representatives from museums, state
and regional museum associations and discipline-based service organizations
discussed how museums and their communities responded in the aftermath of
September 11.
Since then the theme "Museums Celebrate America's Freedom: Joining
Communities in a Day of Remembrance" has been endorsed by national, state
and regional museum associations including the Association of Art Museum
Directors, the Association of Children's Museums, the Association of Science
and Technology Centers, the National Science Collections Alliance, the Mid
Atlantic Association of Museums and the Illinois Heritage Association.
As stewards of the nation's stories, museums offer their communities special
places to examine and reaffirm such precious freedoms as:
* Freedom to assemble
* Freedom to create
* Freedom to worship
* Freedom to inquire
* Freedom to express ideas
* Freedom from fear
In this spirit AAM and IMLS, working with museums, developed materials to
place museum activities in context, as part of a nationwide initiative that
demonstrates the role of museums as centers of civic engagement in a
democratic society. Background, a logo and tool kit for "Museums Celebrate
America's Freedom: Joining Communities in a Day of Remembrance" can be found
on the AAM web site at http://www.aam-us.org/mcaf/index.htm. Working
together, communities and museums can make a powerful statement about the
richness of the American experience.
Museums are encouraged to participate in ways that best suit their missions,
resources and needs of their communities.
AAM and IMLS are very interested in launching a national communications
campaign in late July that supports the efforts of museums nationwide that
are involved in September 11 activities. We need to hear from you about
your museum's efforts in order for tell the whole story.
Please visit the AAM web site at http://www.aam-us.org/mcaf/index.htm and
tell your story. Contact us at: mailto:[log in to unmask]
Eileen Maxwell
Public Affairs Specialist
Institute of Museum and Library Services
1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Suite 510
Washington, DC 20506
202-606-8339
202-606-8591 (fax)
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