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Senate Committee Approves Reauthorization of IMLS
Advocacy Alert – November 30, 2018 Senate HELP Committee Approves Reauthorization of IMLS Great news! The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee on Nov. 29 unanimously approved S. 3530, the Museum and Library … -
Assessing Museum Financial Sustainability: What Kind of Monster is Under Your Bed?
Has anyone besides me ever had a bad dream about financial sustainability? How about any nightmares along the lines of “What if the museum has to close down”? These kinds of disturbing thoughts can occur during a big crisis, or when there … -
What You Gain by Attending the Annual Meeting as a Scholar: An interview with Jeanine Pollard
We recently had a chat with Jeanine Pollard, Research & Project Manager at the Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Art, who was awarded an AAM scholarship to attend the 2018 Annual Meeting. Here she talks … -
What You Gain by Attending the Annual Meeting as a Scholar: An interview with James Burns
We recently had a chat with James Burns, Executive Director of the Arizona Historical Society, who was awarded an AAM scholarship all the way back in 1997. Here he talks about how that first trip to the AAM Annual Meeting helped jumpstart … -
Monday Musing: A Prescription for Museum Sustainability
Monday musings are my way of sharing “brain blorts”: brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently, both to help clarify my thinking an in the hopes of generating discussion and response. I give myself 15 minutes or so … -
How Can Museums Empower Communities? TACA Perforum
Last month I had the honor of speaking on a panel organized by The Arts Community Alliance (TACA) in Dallas, hosted by the Nasher Sculpture Center. Every year TACA brings together speakers for Perforum: a Conversation to Advance Arts and … -
A Season of Kindness
Much like museums, my daughter’s school distributes a quarterly calendar at which I typically glance to note important dates like the ubiquitous school closings, PTA meetings, and volunteer opportunities. The new calendar, however, caught … -
American Alliance of Museums Announces One Newly Accredited Museum and 15 Reaccreditations
Accredited at the October 2018 meeting of the Alliance's Accreditation Commission, 16 museums have demonstrated they meet standards and best practices and represented themselves as educational entities that are appropriate stewards of the … -
Making it all about Them: the New Bedford Whaling Museum High School Apprenticeship Program
Each year AAM’s Education Committee (EdCom) Professional Network recognizes outstanding museum educators and supporters, programs and resources that exemplify excellence. The 2018 Award of Excellence in Programming was received by the New … -
Museopunks Episode 31: Are Museums “Safe Spaces for Unsafe Ideas?”
Since the mid-1990s, it has been received wisdom that museums are, or should be, “safe spaces for unsafe ideas.” But is this true? Are museum safe spaces? And do they really deal in unsafe ideas? In this episode, Elaine Heumann Gurian, who …
Month: November 2018
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Demystifying AI for History Organizations
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Charting a New Course for Education: Museum Edition KnowledgeWorks
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Tools of Transformation 7: Regenerative Thinking and Living Metrics at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Event Date:Presented by: The Climate Toolkit
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