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What You Gain by Attending the Annual Meeting as a Scholar: An interview with James Burns

By Shelagh Grimshaw

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

By Elizabeth Merritt

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

By Elizabeth Merritt

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

By Laura Lott

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

By Joseph Klem

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

By Christina Turner

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?”

By Suse Anderson

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 …
Call for Applications: Aroha Fellowship for Museums & Creative Aging

By Elizabeth Merritt

Last week the Alliance launched the search for our first senior fellow. With the generous support of Aroha Philanthropies, this individual will spend two years advancing the work of museums with respect to creative aging. One of the goals …
Immersive Storytelling at The New York Times

By Maureen Towey

Watch this keynote from the two-day convening titled, "Immersion in Museums: AR, VR or Just Plain R?," hosted by the Detroit Institu…
How Immersion Makes Art Accessible

By By Multiple Authors

Watch this keynote from the two-day convening titled, "Immersion in Museums: AR, VR or Just Plain R?," hosted by the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit…