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You’re Doing What?!: A rebel performance artist goes through his mid-life crisis
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Ad Summa: Museums and Creative Aging
Yes, even performance artists grow old! Here is an insightful look into the heart of one of America’s most dynamic contemporary artists, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, as he hits the ripe old age of …
2019 Museum Publications Design Competition Winner: Painting the Floating World
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Exhibitions
AAM’s annual Museum Publications Design Competition recognizes superior execution and ingenuity in the graphic design of museum publications. A panel of graphic designers, museum …
A Reading Group for Building Inclusive Museums
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Inclusion
Between April and August of this year, 270 museums professionals, scholars, and students joined The Incluseum and participated in the #MassActionReadingGroup. What is MASS Action? MASS …
Doing More with More: Investing in earned income
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
As the saying goes, “it takes money to make money.” Often museums feel they can’t risk their slim financial margin on speculative ventures, but not taking such risks comes with a cost as …
Trans Inclusion: Shedding light on gender transition and inclusion in the workplace.
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Transgender people are a lot more common than you might imagine: recent …
Museopunks Episode 38: Decolonization and its Discontents
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Collections Stewardship
As decolonization moves more firmly onto the agenda in museums, so too does its critique. In this episode, we speak with Sumaya Kassim, author of the essay ‘The Museum Will Not Be …
Decolonizing the Future: museums as agents of generational equity
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
“We treat the future like a distant colonial outpost devoid of people, where we can freely dump ecological degradation, technological risk, nuclear waste and public debt, and that we feel …
With Their Subject Matter in the Crosshairs, What Should Museums Do?
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Influence of Museums
My parents were part of the generation that fought and won World War II. As their children, it was common for us to ask them, “What did you do during the war?” We wanted to be reassured …
