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Keynote Speaker Ericka Huggins

By Ericka Huggins

Get inspired by keynote speaker Ericka Huggins -- educator, Black Panther Party member, and former politica…
AAM’s Museum Magazine Receives Top Honor From Association Media & Publishing

By American Alliance of Museums

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARLINGTON, VA – The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, announced today that an issue of its magazine, Museum, released last year but …
Seeding Vitality Arts at the Newark Museum

By Sonnet Takahisa

The Alliance is collaborating with Aroha Philanthropies and Lifetime Arts to support a cohort of 15 to 17 museums in a program to create instructional arts workshop series for older adults. Today’s guest post is by Sonnet Takahisa, …
The Reinforcement Crew: Colleagues Helping Colleagues

By Libby Krecek,

Each year since 2007 museum collections professionals from around the nation have donated their time and expertise to help other institutions in need. This wonderful program improves the stewardship of cultural heritage collections …
Net Neutrality Matters to Museums

By Blaire Moskowitz

In future-speak, a “disruptive event” is one that significantly changes the world for good or ill. Evaluating the ripple effects of such events is an important part of strategic foresight. For today’s guest post, I invited Blaire …
The Art of Sustainable Design

By Michael Fiegenschuh

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2018 issue of Museum magazine. Museums can use environmental performance to enhance mission and visitor experience. Museums have long held a special place in the hierarchy of our …
What the Garden Tells Us: A new triennial’s first exhibition chronicled man’s evolving relationship with nature.

By Erlend G. Høyersten

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2018 edition of Museum magazine. As the number of art museums in the world has steadily risen, so has the number of biennials, triennials, and art fairs. Some survive. Many …
How can museums support Native-led climate justice initiatives?

By Beka Economopoulos

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2018 edition of Museum magazine. “We humbly ask permission from all our relatives: our elders, our families, our children, the winged and the insects, the fourlegged, the swimmers and all …
Practice Makes Perfect: 4 Keys to Exhibit Prototyping Success

By David Whitemyer, AIA

If you’ve ever cut out a piece of cardboard the size of an exhibit graphic panel and taped it to a wall to see if it’s at a readable height, that’s prototyping. Creating a beta version of a digital interactive and inviting children to play …
Futurist Friday: Argumentative AI

By Elizabeth Merritt

In TrendsWatch 2017 I explored the implications of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) for society and for museums. Museums are already using AI to converse with visitors, and give voice to works of art. I’ve …