The Upstate/Downstate Museum Educators Exchange, funded by a grant from the New York State Counciil on the Arts (NYSCA), provided the opportunity for New York's museum educators to spend a week at a sister institution, learning new techniques, observing programs and planning, and developing new ideas to bring back to their own institutions.

Goals of the Project

• Provide museum educators with new perspectives and ideas
• Provide host museums with new opportunities to learn
• Develop new networks of museum professionals

Exchange partners were chosen in 2002, with exchanges taking place during 2003. As the exchanges were completed, the educators' reports on their experiences have been added to the website.

EDUCATOR REPORTS
(All reports are in Microsoft Word format)

Sara Boettrich, Brooklyn Museum of Art
Exchange with the Strong Museum

Hilary Eddy, South Street Seaport Museum
Exchange with the Roberson Museum & Science Center

Dale Ketchum and Jaime Howenstein, Roberson Museum & Science Center
Exchange with the South Street Seaport Museum

Ilene Frank, Rensselaer County Historical Society
Exchange with the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jennifer Lapp, The Long Island Museum
Exchange with the Albany Institute of History and Art

Maureen Reynolds, Chemung County Historical Society
Exchange with the Metropolitan Museum of Art

This program is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.