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Our Museum Is Considered a Leader in Equity and Inclusion. Here’s What We’ve Done—and Why We Have a Long, Long Way to Go

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Category: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion

The Oakland Museum of California was born in the shadow of racial division and protest. We opened our doors in 1969 amid the demonstrations to free Huey Newton, founder of the Black …

Floyd Case Forces Arts Groups to Enter the Fray

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Category: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion

Cultural institutions are feeling compelled to stand up for racial justice, but artists and activists want action, not just statements of solidarity. The apologies keep coming. After the …

‘We’re Holding Down the Fort’: How Guards, Groundskeepers, and Collections Managers Across the US Are Doing Their Jobs in Shuttered Museums

By Sarah Cascone, artnet News
Category: COVID-19

It's been roughly two months since museums across the US, both big and small, were forced to shutter abruptly. Most of them had to do so with only a few days notice, meaning there was …

By Redeploying Her Staff in Some Ingenious New Ways, the Director of Texas’s Blanton Museum Has Managed to Avoid Job Cuts Entirely

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Category: COVID-19

As museums shuttered throughout the US, many were forced to cut staff through layoffs and furloughs, including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Broad in Los Angeles. But …

Nasher Windows launches rotating series of installation viewable through museum’s vestibule

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Category: COVID-19

The Nasher Sculpture Center has announced the launch of Nasher Windows, a new series of installations sited inside the Nasher's Flora Street vestibule entrance. The exhibited sculptures …

Many Museums Won’t Survive the Virus. How Do You Close One Down?

By Nina Siegal, Nytimes
Category: COVID-19

Institutions will face ethical and sometimes legal obligations to transfer their collections elsewhere. The process can be costly and time-consuming, expert…

Why Museums Can’t Always Fall Back on Endowments

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Category: Financial Sustainability

The COVID-19 pandemic may be an opportunity to look transparently at museum endowments and their limitations, and consider the need for alternative sources of support in the months to …

How to help your neighbors when a pandemic hits? Exhibit A: Museums.

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Category: COVID-19

As coronavirus shut down everyday life over the last month, museums all around the world closed their doors. From the Louvre in Paris to the Met museum in New York, exhibits usually …

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Committee on Audience Research and Evaluation (CARE)

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The Committee on Audience Research and Evaluation (CARE) provides a forum for museum professionals who believe that understanding the visitor is an essential part of museum planning and operation. CARE disseminates information about …

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Leadership of this professional network

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Liz Kollmann - Chair, CARE
  • Manager, Research and Evaluation
  • Museum of Science, Boston, MA
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Michelle A. Mileham - Chair-elect, CARE
  • Director of Education
  • Tracy Aviary, Salt Lake City, UT

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Spotlight: Most-read posts from the Alliance Blog this week!

4 Ways Museums Can Successfully Leverage Digital Content and Channels during Coronavirus (COVID-19)

By Brendan Ciecko
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Security and Operational Priorities for Reopening Cultural Institutions

By Darrell Utt and Bill Edwards

Flies in the Buttermilk: Museums, Diversity, and the Will to Change

By Lonnie G. Bunch Ill

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