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What Museum Education Students Learned at #AAMvirtual

By American Alliance of Museums

With the AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo transitioning to a virtual format this year, a new crop of colleagues was able to attend, participate, and share their reactions on social media. Among these were students in the Museum …
Pivoting to a Virtual Event: Top 4 Lessons Learned

By American Alliance of Museums

The AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo is the world’s largest museum conference. Bringing together thousands of museum professionals from across the U.S. and around the world, the Annual Meeting features hundreds of educational sessions, …
#AAMvirtual General Session: Lonnie G. Bunch III

By American Alliance of Museums

This AAM Virtual Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo general session took place on June 2, 2020. Speakers: Arthur Affleck, Vice President of Development at American Alliance of Museums Lonnie G. Bunch III, 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian …
#AAMvirtual General Session: Christy Coleman and Marina Gorbis

By American Alliance of Museums

This AAM Virtual Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo general session took place on June 1, 2020. Speakers: Laura Lott, President & CEO at the American Alliance of Museums Chevy Humphrey, The Hazel A. Hare President and CEO at the Arizona …
#AAMvirtual General Session: Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole and Anthony Salcito

By American Alliance of Museums

This AAM Virtual Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo general session took place on May 18, 2020. Speakers: Laura Lott, President & CEO at American Alliance of Museums Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, President & National Chair of the National …
Diary of a Museum Reopening

By Peter Seibert

As of May 7, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West is officially reopened to visitors. The BBCW is a massive AAM-accredited facility located in rural Wyoming in the Yellowstone National Park gateway community of Cody, with a budget of around …
The Phillips Collection’s Plan for Advancing Racial Equity

By Makeba Clay

Out of the brutal murders of George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, Ahmaud Arbery, and far too many other Black and Brown people in the United States, there has been a resurgence of a clarion call for racial justice. The …
What Juneteenth Means This Year

By Andrew Plumley

On June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger of the Union Army strolled into Galveston, Texas, to announce that the last of the enslaved people in the Confederacy were free from the shackles of slavery. That day, two years after the …
Museums in Service to Society: A Museum in Colombia Responds to the Needs of its Community During the Pandemic

By Isabel Dapena and Armando Perla

The global crisis caused by the arrival of COVID-19 has not only forced us to rethink our daily lives and the way we work, but also the systems under which our societies have functioned. Moreover, the pandemic has exposed the shocking …
Towards Frictionless Augmented Reality

By Matt Davis

Author’s Note: Several months ago, putting on an Augmented Reality (AR) headset was an uncomfortable nuisance for museum visitors. Now, it’s a potential health risk. The COVID-19 pandemic has only amplified the need for museums to rapidly …