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An International Experience at #AAM2019

By Angela Gala

After moving back to Europe from America in 2016, I had never been able to come visit until last month. That’s when I flew all the way to New Orleans to attend this year’s Annual Meeting of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and …
Museopunks Episode 36: Queering Your Museum

By Suse Anderson

The end of Pride Month does not mean that we should stop talking or thinking about LGBTQIA+ inclusion and queer curating practices in museums. This month, we’re joined by Craig Middleton and Nikki Sullivan, authors of the KINQ (or …
A Museum ‘Dating’ App Helps Visitors Fall in Love with Art

By Julia Forbes and Ivey Rucket

As the High Museum of Art prepared to completely reinstall its collection in the fall of 2018, we began talking about how we could use mobile technologies in new and innovative ways to engage the public with our newly installed galleries. …
Summer Advocacy Session: #InviteCongress, National Voter Registration Day, and Legislative Update

By American Alliance of Museums

Advocacy Alert – July 10, 2019 Summer Advocacy Session: #InviteCongress, National Voter Registration Day, and Legislative Update Wondering how you and your museum can participate in “Invite Congress to Visit Your Museum …
Investing in the Creative Economy for Good and Profit

By Laura Callanan

When it comes to managing their endowments, museums typically focus solely on financial return. This is a missed opportunity to advance their mission-related work. Some avoid investing in sectors (tobacco, extractive energy) at odds with …
An After-School Program Gives Refugee Children a Creative Boost

By Aimee Hunt

One of the many things that make Charlottesville, Virginia special is that it serves as a destination city for the International Rescue Committee, which helps refugees settle into their new countries. Since 1998, more than three thousand …
Revisiting Volunteers and Museum Labor

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’m working on an essay about museum volunteers and diversity, exploring how this issue intertwines with efforts to diversify our staff, boards, and audiences. What are the barriers to volunteering? Is the opportunity and ability to …
Ceding Authority and Seeding Trust

By Ben Garcia, Kelly Hyberger, Brandie Macdonald, and Jaclyn Roessel

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Through a decolonizing collections practice, the San Diego Museum of Man is creating a more ethical standard for the Indigenous …
Discomfort in Learning: Museum audiences react to decolonizing practices.

By Starr Kelly, Angela Raup, Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Traditional museum models of interpretation have historically failed Indigenous people by creating static spaces where the …
Hiding In Plain Sight: An exhibition showcasing America’s obsession with Native American iconography aims to start a new conversation.

By Paul Chaat Smith

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. By most standards, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington, DC, is a wildly successful …