2019 Historic House Summit: Sustainability: Governance, Relevance and the Environment
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American Alliance of Museums to Launch National Museum Board Diversity and Inclusion Initiative
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Multi-year project backed by $4 million in grants from The Andrew W. Mellon, Alice L. Walton, and Ford Foundations ARLINGTON, VA – January 15, 2019 – The American …
Congratulations, it’s a baby Professional Network!
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Today, in conjunction with AAM and my brilliant colleagues Sarah Erdman and Dina Bailey, I’m excited to announce the arrival on the scene of a new Professional Network just for consultants, …
Setting the stage for my career path: Maria Marable Bunch Excellence in Practice award winner reflects on her career.
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Career Management
Each year AAM’s Education Committee (EdCom) Professional Network recognizes outstanding museum educators and supporters, programs and resources that exemplify excellence. The 2018 Award of …
Listen to the Interns: The Importance of the “Budding Scholar” for Museum Decolonization
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As a junior in college, I think I might have found my calling—for now anyway. For the past two and a half years I have been studying Art History, Museum Studies, and African American …
Futuring in New Orleans: Registration Now Open!
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
I’ll be giving a workshop at the AAM annual meeting in New Orleans where I’ll share some foresight activities you can use to enliven your own institutional planning. The workshop will run …
Decolonisation: we aren’t going to save you
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
In today’s guest post, Head of Mātauranga Māori (Head of the taonga Māori collection) at Te Papa, Puawai Cairns (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Pūkenga) reflects on what …
YES, You Can Advocate! What Nonprofits Can and Can’t Do*
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Did you know that museums and other nonprofits CAN engage in advocacy and lobbying? In fact, that they are encouraged to do so, and to participate in nonpartisan election activities? …
The World is Better Because of Museums
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Influence of Museums
Museum professionals from across the globe share personal stories about how museums play a vital role in society and can have a powerful, positive impact in the lives of the individuals and …
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What New Year’s Resolutions Should Art Museums Be Making?
"If our museums are to begin to effectively address inequality, disempowerment, isolation, intolerance, climate change, we need to start at home-and with our workers." Seb Chan, Chief …
A critically acclaimed National Gallery show must come down, so workers are moving the art without pay
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Labor
January 14 The Rachel Whiteread sculpture show at the National Gallery of Art ended its four-month run this weekend, but because of the partial government shutdown, no one had been able to …
Museums are curating an era of social movements in real time
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Curatorial Practice
Museums are curating an era of social movements i…
The Road to Participation: Countering Misperceptions
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Building Audiences
The Wallace Foundation and its partners have developed a much better understanding of the reasons people choose to go, or not to go, to an arts performance or exhibition. The decision is …
Exhibiting Absence
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Exhibitions
Museums display things: art, artifact, specimens. They do this, mostly, in the service of teaching facts, revealing ideas, or driving emotion or empathy. Things help museums tell stories. …
Museum Creates Program for Families Suffering from the Opioid Crisis
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Influence of Museums
Approximately 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017 alone. For families hurt by addiction, the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire has created an unprecedented program that …
10 Career Tips From The First Woman To Lead The Smithsonian Air And Space Museum
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Career Management
Ellen Stofan made a deliberate decision to step back from her management career in aerospace to spend more time with her kids knowing she may have shut the door on those opportunities …
Museum Aims To Be A Model For Making Collections Available Via 3D Printing
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Technology
The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site in Indianapolis was one of the first museums to offer free 3D printing of its art collection, all in an effort to make it more accessible to the …
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Independent Museum Professionals Network
Consultant, freelancer, independent professional, those making a career from multiple institutions. There are many names for those who don’t fall under the umbrella of a single institution, but instead are doing their best to hold …
Continue reading about Independent Museum Professionals NetworkLeadership of this professional network
Claudia Ocello - Acting Chair
- President & CEO
- Museum Partners Consulting, LLC, Maplewood, NJ
Sarah Erdman - Acting Events Coordinator
- Founder
- Cabinet of Curiosities, Fairfax, VA
Upcoming Events
Watch & Talk: “Building Millennial Audiences – Barriers and Opportunities”
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Arizona Science Center
Phoenix, AZ
C2C Care Course: Collections Management for Smaller Cultural Institutions
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American Institute for Conservation
