Digital Engagement Series #2: One by One
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How the National Air and Space Museum Took Volunteering Virtual
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COVID-19
A mother and her spaceship-loving children, ages five and seven, arrive at the Steven F. Udvar Hazy Center using their timed tickets. As they enter the museum, unsure where to turn first, a …
Information for the Museum Field on the COVID-19/Coronavirus
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Health
With the continued spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) and as public spaces, employers for over 726,000 individuals, and institutions that hold significant public trust museums must be well …
Crowdsourcing a Database of Permanent Museum Closings
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Due to the independent nature of the nonprofit sector in the US, there no comprehensive way to track museum openings or closings (much less arrive at a definitive head count of museums at …
10 Best Practices of Accessible Museum Websites
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Accessibility
This article explores ten high-impact areas you should consider to enhance your website’s accessibility and bring it into conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), …
Mapping Uncertainty in 2021
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
I have been wishing everyone HAPPY NEW YEAR (in all caps) because I am so relieved to see the backside of 2020. But “better than last year” is a very low bar indeed, and we face many very …
An End-of-Year Message from Laura Lott, AAM President and CEO
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Alliance Blog
Hello AAMers, I’m sending this video today to reflect with you on this historic year. It has tested us in ways few of us could have imagined. Probably like you, I have uttered a few …
A Pandemic Time Capsule and Tools for 2021
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
This blog has become an incidental time capsule of 2020, a monthly record of how the museum sector responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. In March, when the first of the posts featured below …
Rebuilding Pathways: How DEAI and Creative Aging Intersect at the Speed Art Museum
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Museums and Aging
As museums work to become more diverse, equitable, accessible, and inclusive, one community is often left out of the discourse: people over the age of fifty-five. This may be because they …
