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Senate Letter Supporting $2 Billion for Museums Now Circulating – Ask Your Senators to Sign On Today!

By American Alliance of Museums

Support Field-Wide Advocacy for Museum Relief: The current crisis is taking a distressing financial toll on cultural organizations, and AAM is no different. In these challenging times, we ask that if you can, consider supporting our …
5 Ways to Keep Your Exhibit Project Moving…Remotely

By Joey Scott and Emily Saich

Face-to-face collaboration has always been key to developing exhibitions at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. So, when COVID-19 led to a statewide shelter-in-place mandate halfway through a conceptual development and design sprint, we had to …
Prioritizing Image Descriptions and Digital Equity at Cooper Hewitt

By Ruth Starr

During this time of crisis, it has never been more important to center access, equity, and inclusion in our response to the unknown. As we adapt quickly and shift our focus online, it is essential that we prioritize and commit to …
Now What?: Project Ideas for Museum Staff Working Remotely

By Cecelia Walls

By now, most of us are well into our stints of working from home. But weeks or months in, you might be finding it hard to think of new tasks you can do without access to your physical site. Some tasks are better suited to working on from …
What Will Become of Interactive Art When Museums Reopen?

By Rachel Trusty

Support Free COVID-19 Resources for the Field The current crisis is taking a distressing financial toll on cultural organizations, and AAM is no different. The Alliance Blog is supported by membership dues and donations. In these …
American Alliance of Museums and Museum Hue Unveil Partnership

By American Alliance of Museums

For Immediate Release ARLINGTON, VA and New York, NY—The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, and Museum Hue, an organization that has become a force in their …
Cómo hacer la transición a la enseñanza en línea de Estudios Museísticos

By Cecelia Walls

Haga clic aquí para descargar una copia en PDF de la Cómo hacer la transición a la enseñanza en línea de Estudios Museísticos. Cuando escribió su programa de estudios hace unos meses, ¡es probable que no se haya imaginado cambiar a la …
Transitioning to Online Teaching in Museum Studies Checklist

By American Alliance of Museums

When you wrote your syllabi for this semester a few months ago, chances are you didn’t imagine shifting to online teaching halfway through the term! Yet here we are. And the good news is that there has been a lot of conversation about how …
Senate Returns to Capitol Hill – Urge Congress to Support Museums

By American Alliance of Museums

Support Field-Wide Advocacy for Museum Relief: The current crisis is taking a distressing financial toll on cultural organizations, and AAM is no different. In these challenging times, we ask that if you can, consider supporting our …
The Rubin Museum of Art’s #MuseumFromHome Strategy: A Meditative Offering

By Joseph O'Neill

Ever since the closures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, museums have been working to engage the public through remote alternatives. Two hashtags have emerged on social media platforms: #MuseumFromHome and #MuseumMomentOfZen—which …