Published May 1, 2024
How to minimize stress, grow a museum and follow your path – Terri Thompson, Museum at Prairiefire
Terri Thompson has been a nurse, an advertising executive and for the past seven years, the Executive Director of the Museum at Prairiefire in Overland Park, Kansas. Learn how her early childhood experiences shaped her adult life, her secrets for managing stress, growing a museum, taking a leap of faith, staying positive through it all and her parenting advice that helped raise her three boys.
Links to everything we discussed:
- Museum at Prairiefire (The MAP)
- Dichroic Glass
- Blue Star Museums
- Vietnam War
- Honor Flights
- Notion
- College Baseball Hall of Fame
- STEAM Education at The MAP
- Swift Science (Taylor’s Version) Event
- Use intellectual property (like Taylor Swift) in your educational programs
- Operation Breakthrough
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Kansas City
- World War 1 Museum
- Kansas City Zoo
- Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens
- Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead
- Chinchilla dust bath
- Augmented Reality
- ChatGPT (ask AI to write for you)
- Gemini (Google’s AI)
- Suno AI (have AI create a song for you)
- KC Urban Advantage
- Tough Mudder
- Museum language translation device
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