Each reviewer contributes about 40-60 hours to each assignment in a completely volunteer capacity. The time required depends on each individual’s work style and the complexity and size of the museum involved.

Accreditation visits--Accreditation Peer Reviewers report that they spend about seven days over a three-month period preparing, conducting the site visit, and writing the narrative report.

MAP visits--MAP Peer Reviewers report that they spend about 40 hours over a three-month period preparing, conducting the site visit, and writing the assessment report.

Depending on your experience and expertise, you can reasonably expect AAM to contact you every one to three years. For example, the Accreditation Program always has a large number of art and history museums needing visits, so reviewers with this type of experience and expertise get called more frequently than, for example, reviewers exclusive to the children’s museum field. You may be matched to an institution that’s like your current or past institutions in terms of type/discipline or in terms of its governance structure or particular type of institutional challenges.

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