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Museums and ADA@25

By Beth Bienvenu

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2015 issue of Museum magazine. Progress and looking ahead These artworks were on display in “The Art of the Lived Experiment” at the DisArt Festival, which aims to change …
The Human Experience

By American Alliance of Museums

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2015 issue of Museum magazine. A conversation with NEH Chairman Dr. William “Bro” Adams After being nominated by President Obama to serve as chairman of the National Endowment for …
Turning Museums Inside Out

By Winifred Kehl

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2015 issue of Museum magazine. Opening collections, engaging audiences On a corner near the north entrance of the University of Washington in Seattle, set back from the road and …
Museums and ADA@25

By Greg Stevens

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2015 edition of Museum magazine. A look back July 2015 marked the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a federal law intended to guarantee equal access for …
Monday Musing: A Radical Proposal on Student Debt

By Elizabeth Merritt

Student debt is a huge issue in our field, especially for emerging museum professionals. So this article caught my attention last week: No more student loans? Purdue University proposes selling shares of students’ future income. Purdue is …
Call for Applications: Distance Learning Summit on Art Museums & Educational Innovation

By Elizabeth Merritt

Since CFM released Building the Future of Education: Museums and the Learning Ecosystem in 2014, I’ve been on the hunt for opportunities to help build the “vibrant learning grid” envisioned in that report. In this post, …
Futurist Friday: All Too Human

By Elizabeth Merritt

To add to your TV viewing list: Humans, a new eight part series on AMC. (You can watch all eight episodes online if you have an account with any one of a number of providers.) The show is set is set in a “present day …
Baby Steps Toward Tomorrow

By Elizabeth Merritt

In the next decade, museums will make a transformational shift from seeing “digitality” as an area of specialization, separate from and in addition to traditional means of doing their work, to digital as an inextricable element of their …
Commercial Appropriation — 10 Museum Opportunities

By Elizabeth Merritt

I came across a report a few months ago that says digital ad spending in the US will total $58.6 billion and change this year—with nearly $13 million of this being spent by retailers. That story came to mind when I read the essay, below, …
Global Dialogues: Reimagining the Museum

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today on the Blog, Madeline Vadkerty, the Alliance’s Senior Manager for International Programs is going to try her best to lure you to Buenos Aires. She’s pretty dang persuasive… My mission today is to convince you to join me at …