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Small Museums Go Big

By American Alliance of Museums

The November/December 2018 issue of Museum magazine focuses on small museums. We asked our Small Museum Administrators Committee to submit some examples of small museums doing innovative or interesting things with little resources. Below …
Learning Cultural Competence

By Jenni Martin

Read the stories of three institutions that grew their capacity for diversity and inclusion via the Cultural Competence Learning Institute: The Wild Center in Tupper Lake, NY; the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and the Cincinnati Muse…
An Indelible Imprint: An interview with Eduardo Diaz

By Cecelia Walls

The Smithsonian Latino Center is the recipient of AAM’s 2018 Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion (DEAI) award for institutions. Eduardo Díaz, Director of the Latino Center offers insight on the organization’s work, …
Our Shared Responsibility: A conversation with Joanne Jones-Rizzi

By Cecelia Walls

Joanne Jones-Rizzi began working at the Boston Children’s Museum in 1985, focusing on issues of access and equity. In 2004, she left Boston to work on the “RACE: Are We So Different?” exhibition at the Science Museum of Minnesota. …
The Joker in the Museum Planning Pack

By Elizabeth Merritt

The fourth and final installment of TrendsWatch 2018’s scenarios of the future is now up on the web. Wild Times explores what might happen if fate deals our field an unexpected card: the loss of nonprofit status. In this version of 2040, …
Wild Times: In which social service nonprofits save the day.

By Elizabeth Merritt

Introduction to This Scenario A wild card scenario explores the kind of low-probability, high-impact event that can disrupt the best-laid plans. Though you shouldn’t obsess about these possibilities, including a few wild cards in your …
A Case Study—in Progress—of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Brand Refresh

By Linda Butler and Jennifer Sonderby

With the arrival of a new director and CEO in 2016, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco expanded its largely encyclopedic approach to art history by introducing a curatorial department dedicated to collecting and presenting contemporary …
Where the Seats Have No Name: In Defense of Museum Benches

By David Whitemyer, AIA

Sitting gets a bad rap. The last few years have seen articles and media outlets touting that “Sitting is the new smoking.” Standing desks are the latest office furniture trend. And in museums too, it seems like visitors are primarily …
Futurist Friday: Emotional Storytelling

By Elizabeth Merritt

My favorite futurist video this week: Karen Palmer talking about her latest artificial intelligence project. Palmer is an artist/technologist who combines film, storytelling, and neuroscience to create ’emotionally responsive …
Museum Store Sunday: A Tale of One City

By Lori Brazos

This article is republished with permission from the Museum Store Association. When I heard of Museum Store Sunday for the first time, my immediate thought was “brilliant!” What a perfect way to promote museum stores. Not only do we have …