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Proving the Power of Place

By Erin Carlson Mast

The “Lincoln shiver” is what most people called it during the restoration of President Lincoln’s Cottage. The words were meant to evoke the feeling one gets just by being in the house, or on the grounds—here at the Soldiers’ Home, on a …
Made Any Great Mistakes Lately?

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s preview of a session at the upcoming AAM annual meeting is offered by Kathy Gustafson-Hilton, Creative Thinking Facilitator, Hands On! Studio. Made any mistakes lately? I know I have! Come on down and share yours, and what you …
10 Tips for First-Time Annual Meeting Attendees

By Josette Souza

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American Alliance of Museums Announces Three Newly Accredited Museums and 15 Museums Reaccredited

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, today announced that three museums were newly accredited and 15 museums earned …
Futurist Friday: Sea-Level Report Cards

By Elizabeth Merritt

The Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) launched a project to create “report cards” projecting sea-level rise in 32 US localities through the year 2050. They plan to update the report cards every year in January. …
Leading Forward: engaging with complex and controversial topics

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’m using the 10th anniversary of CFM, and the ninth year of this blog, as an occasion to revisit some of our most widely read posts. Today I’m re-posting an essay by Sean Kelley, Senior Vice President, Director of …
Labor of Love: Revaluing Museum Work

By Emma Boast and Maddie Mott

This post was originally published on Medium, December 20, 2017. Over the last few years, museum workers have been increasingly vocal about job dissatisfaction. At the 2015 American Alliance of Museums (AAM) annual conference, several …
Community Curating: A Macro to Micro View

By Elizabeth Merritt

In the second post in our series previewing sessions at AAM2018, Michael Berlucchi (Community Engagement Manager, Chrysler Museum of Art), Sandra Bonnici (Associate Director of Education, Diversity, and Inclusion, Madison Children’s …
Digital Storytelling coming to a museum near you: 3 reasons to use Lume

By Gretchen Halverson

Gretchen Halverson is the Media and Technology Assistant at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The reinstallation of the African galleries at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) in 2013 involved the drastic reduction in the number of …
Postcards from the future

By Elizabeth Merritt

Last week I flew down to Miami for the Contemporary Art in Historic Contexts Symposium at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. Vizcaya gathered curators, scholars, educators, and artists from around the globe to delve into this topic, and I had the …