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Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News 7/21/2017
1. The House Appropriations committee has voted to fund the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and the National Endowments for the Humanities (NEH) and the Arts (NEA). This defies the president’s budget proposal which called … -
AI and the Future of History
If you could chat with any historical figure, who would you choose? That question (or a variants such as “who would you invite to dinner”) is used as a pick-up line, debated on the web, even used in in job interviews. Now, thanks to … -
750 Museums Sign Fieldwide Letter So Far
A Positive Step! Today, the House Appropriations Committee approved a bill that would provide $231 million for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). This development comes just one day after the committee approved $145 … -
Museum Fieldtrips, from the other side!
Tara Young is Deputy Director at the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, MA On a 95-degree day in mid-June, I accompanied my daughter Alice’s 3rd-grade class on a “field study” to Lexington and Concord (her twin sister Ruth went the next … -
How are you advocating for #museums this summer?
Ember Farber is the director of Advocacy at the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). In that role, she communicates with AAM’s advocate network and the field about federal policy issues and advocacy opportunities through legislative and … -
Funding Bills Advance; How You Can Help
President Trump’s proposal to eliminate key federal agencies that support museums faced its first major test in Congress this week. In a step forward for museum funding, key subcommittees of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee passed … -
Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News 7/14/2017
1. This week craft retail store Hobby Lobby was all over the news when it agreed to pay a $3 million fine and forfeit thousands of ancient Iraqi relics smuggled into the United States wrongly labelled as samples for its stores. … -
The Alliance Announces Three Newly Accredited Museums and Ten Museums Re-Accredited
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 13, 2017 Arlington, VA – The American Alliance of Museums has announced that three museums were newly accredited and 10 museums earned re-accreditation at the June 2017 meeting of the Accreditation Commission. … -
Bidding Farewell to CFM’s First Fellow
In 2015 Dr. Nicole Ivy joined the Alliance as our first CFM Fellow, supported by a Public Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. Training with CFM director Elizabeth Merritt, Dr. Ivy chose … -
Watch Featured Speaker Haben Girma from the 2017 Annual Meeting
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