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AllArtMuseums Blog: Ultimate Guide to Docent Tour Best Practices https://allartmuseums.com/blog/ultimate-guide-to-docent-tour-best-practices/

• This is a fantastic resource that Jan found that gives a nice, concise overview of what makes a Superstar Docent.

AAM’s Museum Magazine September/October 2026 Issue: The Culture of Welcome

• This issue focuses on visitor experience throughout the museum and has some great examples of what museums are doing to ensure that “every visitor feels like a guest.” pg. 5

• This is the whole issue minus some ads, but of particular interest is the intro on pg. 5 “Experience is Everything” and pg. 44: “No Yelling in the Museum”

Living with Tiffany I Tiffany Studios from the Permanent Collection

On view beginning Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Discover the artistry and elegance of Tiffany Studios through this intimate exhibition of 47 works drawn from the Zanesville Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Featuring luminous Favrile glass, decorative desk accessories, lamps, salt cellars, and bowls, Living with Tiffany explores how Tiffany Studios brought extraordinary color, craftsmanship, and beauty into the everyday home.

Additional Reading:

Paul Doros, “Richly Ornamental: Tiffany's ‘Fancy Goods’ & Accessories” (2025) is particularly relevant. Doros explains that Tiffany Studios used the term “Fancy Goods” by 1906, although such objects were produced earlier. The firm's foundry was capable of high-quality bronze casting, and inkstands and powder boxes appeared in Tiffany's important 1899 Grafton Gallery exhibition. Most interestingly, Doros connects the development of these portable Favrile-glass-and-metal objects with Clara Driscoll, who headed the Women's Glass Cutting Department. 
Read “Richly Ornamental: Tiffany's Fancy Goods & Accessories”

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933)” provides a concise scholarly overview of Tiffany's extraordinarily broad production—glass, pottery, metalwork, enamels, jewelry, mosaics and interiors—and is useful introductory reading for staff or docents. 
Read The Met's Louis Comfort Tiffany essay

The Tiffany Studios Research Center is also worth bookmarking. It is maintained by Paul Doros and focuses specifically on Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany Studios and Favrile glass. 
Tiffany Studios Research Center

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