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New Year, New Congress! Two Opportunities to Connect with Your Legislators
Looking for ways to connect with the new Congress? We’ve got tools you can use today! On Thursday, January 3 the 116th Congress was officially sworn-in to office. As noted in AAM’s “What the Midterm Elections Mean for … -
New Directions in Interactive Media for Museums
The challenges of integrating interactive media into the museum experience are manifold. New technologies can engage but also potentially alienate museum visitors who have different cultural backgrounds and varying degrees of knowledge … -
Say Cheese! 3 Ways Museums Can Compete with Instagrammable Pop-Ups
This article is loosely based on a session panel that I facilitated at the 2018 New England Museum Association (NEMA) conference titled, “Let Me Take a Selfie: The Power of Photo Ops and ‘Instagrammable’ Moments in Museums.” Panelists … -
Statement from Alliance President & CEO Laura Lott on the Partial Federal Government Shutdown
In response to the partial federal government shutdown, Laura Lott, President and CEO of the American Alliance of Museums, said federally operated museums, as well as national parks, national monuments, national forests, national historic … -
Announcing the Alliance Scholarship for Strategic Foresight
The first item on my wish list for the second decade of the Center for the Future of Museums is: “more museum futurists.” By which I mean, people who appreciate the importance of strategic foresight, and have whatever formal training they … -
Building A Framework: The museum sector needs to rethink digital skills—from the ground up.
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. The museum—finally—is digital. Today’s museums have collections shared through connected databases, exhibitions powered by … -
A Winning Approach To Digital Media Accessibility
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Click here to join! The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has taken purposeful steps to improve accessibility—and has … -
Handheld and Expansive: Mobile platforms help museums foster better visitor experiences.
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. The opportunities to expand museum experiences through mobile devices have never been so plentiful and, at the same time, … -
Exploring A Neurospeculative Future
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Ashley Baccus-Clark discusses the storytelling promise of VR, her work, and what museums can do better. In September 2018, …
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