2016 – Page 20 – American Alliance of Museums

Future Friday Fiction!: The Wax

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week, our Future Friday Fiction work is by Joe Tankersley, a futurist. His story is set in New Orleans and imagines a future where a VR enhanced music program is developed by a museum. Check out the other entries here and submit your …
Museums and Fair Labor Practices

By Elizabeth Merritt

Fair wages, living wages, the CEO pay ratio, unpaid internships, short term contracts, unbiased hiring, outsourced work—labor issues are front and center in our field. TrendsWatch 2016 (which will come out at the end of this month) tackles …
Museums & Employment: Casting a Wider Net

By Elizabeth Merritt

Diversifying the museum workforce is going to involve all players in the labor market rethinking traditional assumptions. In her January guest post (“One Graduate’s Job Search Story”) Sophie Stein encourages recent …
Future Fiction Friday: It began with the bees.

By Elizabeth Merritt

Hi, this is Sylvea. I wanted to share a story from our Future Fiction Challenge…this one, by Lisa Alleman, an educator at Lakewood Historical Society in Lakewood, OH. Check out the other entries here and submit your story! If you would …
Lessons in Foresight

By Elizabeth Merritt

When I wooed the American Council of Learned Societies last year, proposing they assign CFM one of their public fellows, I promised that the Alliance would provide futurist training for the humanities post-doc that also matched our needs. …
The Future of Websites

By Elizabeth Merritt

CFM is a “skunkworks” for the Alliance, as well as an idea lab for the field. Sometimes we test drive things that may (or may not) work to assess whether they are promising practices for the association as a whole. Case in point: our …
Future Fiction Friday

By Elizabeth Merritt

Hi, this is Sylvea. I wanted to share a story from our Future Fiction Challenge…this one, by Sarah Jesse, is entitled “World Museum and Library Database.” Check out the other entries here and submit your story! If you would like tips from …
Kentucky’s Jefferson Davis Dilemma

By Elizabeth Merritt

In a post last June I began to track how museums are invoked by protesters calling for the removal of monuments and symbols celebrating the Confederacy in particular, and America’s slave-holding past more generally. In the ensuing …
Ten Small Museums Tapped for First Year of Readiness Program for AAM Accreditation

By American Alliance of Museums

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 26, 2016 ARLINGTON, VA–The American Alliance of Museums announces the ten museums participating in the first session of its new Small Museums Accreditation Academy: Bainbridge Island Historical …
One Graduate’s Job Search Story…Consider Casting a Wider Net

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’m frequently asked to give advice about job searches, which puts me in an uncomfortable position: I want to be helpful, but I’m hesitant to offer advice based on my own initial forays into the field, which took place in a …