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Meet Me in Miami to Explore Museums and AI

By Elizabeth Merritt

Right now I’m working on the agenda for Museums and New Intelligences, the Alliance’s second Knight Foundation-funded mini-conference exploring museum applications of emerging technologies. I hope you will join me at the Pérez Museum …
Valuing and Creating Value: AAM’s Recent Internship Project

By Cecelia Walls

Do you enjoy reading Museum, the Alliance’s award-winning magazine? Well, if you do, we’re excited to tell you that we’ve been busy digitizing past feature articles and adding them to our website for members to enjoy! We …
Participate in National Voter Registration Day on 9/25!

By American Alliance of Museums

Participate in National Voter Registration Day on 9/25! Did you know that AAM is one of more than 3,000 National Partners of National Voter Registration Day? This important initiative works to help ensure that no one misses the chance to …
By Any Means Necessary: Digital, Virtual, and Travelling African American and Civil Rights Exhibitions

By Charlene Blair

It was such an honor to attend the 40th Association of African American Museums (AAAM) conference. To be surrounded by people that are so passionate and committed to keeping the legacies and histories of African Americans alive and well …
Four Ways of Seeing the Future

By Elizabeth Merritt

We’re halfway through the serial publication of CFM’s set of scenarios for museum planning! Bright and dark versions of the year 2040, crowdsourced from the hopes and fears of AAMers, are available now, and our third scenario will be …
The A in DEAI: Seven tips for greater accessibility at events

By Nicole Smith

In being a museum professional during the social media age, there are few things cooler than getting to be a Social Media Journalist for the American Alliance of Museum (AAM) conference. In my application, I spoke about how I wanted to …
The Museum Education Act passes the New York State Legislature

By Erika Sanger

Is it done yet? What can I do to help? What happens next? When can we apply for funding? Those are just some of the questions I’ve been getting since the Museum Education Act (MEA) passed the New York State Legislature during the last …
A Suggestion Box is Not Going to Fix a Riot

By Calder Zwicky

I love a good immersive futurist exercise. One of the earliest CFM events involved recruiting museum people to create museum narratives for Superstruct, the Institute for the Future’s Massive Multi-player Online Forecasting game. But …
20 Museums Tapped for Initiative to Create Learning Opportunities For Older Adults

By Joseph Klem

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Arlington, VA – Aroha Philanthropies, the American Alliance of Museums, and Lifetime Arts announced today that 20 museums and organizations have been tapped to participate in a new initiative, funded and managed by …
The Importance of The Structured Interview

By Laurie Davis

While most HR/recruitment professionals are well trained in interview practices, departmental hiring managers frequently are not. This factor can lead to unintentional hiring bias, which can ultimately result in departments taking on a …