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New Ideas and Knowledge at #AAM2019

By Cecelia Walls

Watch this video to see how attending the AAM Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo helps spark new ideas and build knowledge you can apply back home. We hope you will join us May 19–22 for the 2019 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo in New …
Build Lifelong Friendships at #AAM2019

By Cecelia Walls

Watch this video to see how attending the AAM Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo helps you connect with others in the field and build lifelong friendships. We hope you will join us May 19–22 for the 2019 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo in …
AAM Names William Tramposch As The Aroha Senior Fellow For Museums and Creative Aging

By American Alliance of Museums

For Immediate Release Arlington, VA – March 6, 2019 – The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has named William (Bill) Tramposch as the Aroha Senior Fellow for Museums and Creative Aging. Tramposch is a former member of the AAM …
A Place at the Table: Developing diversity and next-generation leaders

By Lynn Miller

In 2018, the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) in Ohio named Asmaa Walton, a Detroit native with a master’s degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, its first KeyBank Museum Fellow. The announcement brought a four-year process of development, …
Backcasting: Or, how to apply 20:20 hindsight to museum planning

By Elizabeth Merritt

“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,’ says the White Queen to Alice.” ― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass In today’s post, I’m going to introduce you to backcasting, a planning method that helps people …
Ask Representatives to Support the IMLS Office of Museum Services

By American Alliance of Museums

Advocacy Alert – March 6, 2019 Help Continue the Museums Advocacy Day Drumbeat; Ask Your Representative to Sign Key Funding Letter Last week 300 museum advocates gathered in Washington, DC for Museums Advocacy Day 2019! What a week …
Creating Conversation, Not Controversy

By Rae Ostman and Mitchell Sava

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of membership with the Alliance. Click here to learn more about membership! Using narrative nonfiction writing as the springboard, five museums …
I AM A CHILD

By Noelle Trent, Ph.D

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of membership with the Alliance. Click here to learn more about membership! On June 5, 2018, on Twitter and Instagram, Paola Mendoza posted a …
Finding Resilience in Challenging Times

By Olga Viso

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of membership with the Alliance. Click here to learn more about membership! Museums must embrace new values if they are to survive into the next …
In Polarized Times

By Svetlana Mintcheva

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of membership with the Alliance. Click here to learn more about membership! How can museums better respond when caught in the crosshairs of …