Like many museums nationwide, the Art Institute of Chicago pledged this year to better prioritize equity and diversity. But the latest of these efforts – a decision to dismantle its decades-old docent ...

Conservative critics say the change is giving into 'woke' culture and harming mostly white docents. Yet museum studies experts say paying docents, as the museum plans to do, makes the field equitable.

Historical interpretation, if done with accuracy and precision, can be a most demanding endeavor. With less than a handful of paid staff, the Great Bridge Battlefield and Waterways Museum relies ...

In September, docents at the Art Institute of Chicago received a letter announcing that the current docent program would be dissolved. Veronica Stein, the Women’s Board Executive Director of Learning ...

For a half century, the Oakland Museum of California has relied on a dedicated volunteer force of some 200 docents to guide visitors, including school kids, through its galleries, sharing their ...

OROVILLE — There is a small hardworking group of 35 women and men whose volunteer work keeps the doors of the city’s five museums open to the public and they are looking for others to join them in ...

The program is open to zoo members who are 18 or older and willing to complete the training program.

The Art Institute of Chicago is getting backlash for changing its docent program. Conservative critics say the change is giving into 'woke' culture and harming mostly white docents. Yet museum studies ...