2015 – Page 4 – American Alliance of Museums

A Modern, Morbid, Cabinet of Wonder

By Elizabeth Merritt

Post-2008, it is difficult to make the books balance for even the most well-established museum. Which makes me particularly interested in those hardy souls who brave the odds to start a new museum. What niches do these new museums fill? …
Futurist Friday: Send in the Drones

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week smart drone manufacturer 3DR is premiering Life After Gravity, an original sci-fi series described as “a thriller on a global scale—intergalactic, really—about the blessingsand poisons of extraordinary power, the many …
Radical futures – new realities

By Elizabeth Merritt

The future is too big a place to explore alone, so I am always delighted to share the work of other groups and individuals peering ahead into the Cone of Plausibility. Today on the Blog Sharon Heal, director of the UK Museums …
Stories of Inclusion: ADA@25 and Universal Design at Cultural Institutions

By American Alliance of Museums

This recorded webinar will help guide you in finding approaches to sharing information and telling compelling stories that can help audiences make meaning of their museum ex…
Museums as 21st Century Databases

By Elizabeth Merritt

In August, Jeff Inscho blogged for CFM about the launch of the Carnegie Museums’ new Innovation Studio at Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. This week his colleague David Newbury, who leads development on the Art Tracks project for Carnegie …
Your Roving Reporter: Interview with Laura Lott

By Betty Brewer

Laura Lott became President and CEO of the American Alliance of Museums in June of this year. I thought we would all enjoy knowing a little more about her passions and drivers. Meet Laura Lott! What attracted you to the museum field and …
Can You Retain the Part-Time Employee?

By Patrick O. Teague

Can You Retain the Part-Time Employee? Having fantastic and talented part-time employees is common in the museum field; keeping them is not. If you are involved in hiring or managing staff, part-time employee turnover is a reality of daily …
Tax Exempt Status: Revocations and Reinstatements

By Charlotte A. Montgomery

The vast majority of tax-exempt status revocations happened after enactment of the Pension Protection Act of 2006. Prior to this new act, there was no filing requirement for organizations with gross receipts under $25,000. The Internal …
Working On or Managing Teams

By Gary Ford

A team is a group of people linked in common purpose. Maybe it’s your immediate staff working on an interpretive plan, a cross-departmental team redesigning the museum’s website, or staff packing and crating objects being loaned to …
I’m Calling That Progress. I’m Calling That Success.

By Jack Ludden

During my day job, I help tell stories. On a good day, those stories are compelling and hopefully useful. Probably like many of you, however, many of the stories that I tell during the day are ones that never get told to our visitors. We …