Twelve Tips for Starting a Collaboration with an Art Museum
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Twelve Tips for Starting a Collaboration with an Art Museum Ray Williams 1 & Corinne Zimmermann 2 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract
In recent years, collaboration between medical educators and art museum educators has emerged as an important trend. The museum environment can support a kind of professional reflection and conversation that is difficult to develop in a medical setting. Skills such as close looking, empathic communication, resilience, and cultural awareness may also be developed in the art museum when plans for the visit are developed with attention to their relevance to health professions. Working across disciplines requires identifying and cultivating a strong partner as well as clear communication about goals and possibilities. The following tips were developed by museum educators based on their extensive experience working with medical students, interns, residents and faculty at Harvard Medical School and the University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School over the past twelve years. Keywords Museum-based education . Arts and humanities . Art museum collaboration . Observation . Communication . Medical education
Introduction The museum is a place for non-linear learning, for exploring choices, and for using metaphor and creating connections. Works of art present interpretive challenges that resonate with the familiar challenges of diagnosis—and provide caregivers with an opportunity to practice confronting the ambiguity that is inherent to challenges that do not yield easily. In our extensive, ongoing work with medical students, interns, residents, and multi-disciplinary teams, we have found that experiences with works of art can also support participants in talking about themselves, their worries, and their hopes. Through displacement, professional and personal reflections are shared in conversations that are partly about the works of art and partly about the participants' own experiences. By allowing individuals to move in and out of * Corinne Zimmermann [email protected]
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Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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Corinne Zimmermann Consultancy , Watertown, MA, USA
Journal of Medical Humanities
the realm of the intimate, the museum becomes a safe place for a level of introspection and sharing that the hospital actively blocks. Medical educators who want to initiate a collaborative relationship with their local art museum should be informed about the growing trend in partnerships between art museums and medical schools and be prepared to share information about such projects with the museum professionals they approach as potential collaborators. You will be looking for an experienced gallery teacher, probably a professional in the museum's education department, to be your partner in developing a relevant and engaging program.
Twelve tips 1. Find the right partner. Depending on the size and mission of your local art museum, it may be challenging to identify the right partner. You are probably looking for an exper
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