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My Primary School is in a Museum—US Pandemic Edition

By Elizabeth Merritt

Can you imagine being a school-age kid during this pandemic? Whether they are glued to a screen trying to learn via Zoom, attending class masked and distanced, or being home-schooled, this experience will shape our youngest generation for …
Building Audience with Intentionality

By Jamie O. Bosket

This article originally appeared in the November/December 2020 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. https://www.aam-us.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Building_Audiences-1.mp3 Audio: Listen to an audio recording of this …
How Might We Transform?

By Rachel Ginsberg and Carolyn Royston

This article originally appeared in the November/December 2020 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. The Interaction Lab at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum seeks to re-envision visitor experience. The idea behind …
Setting A Higher Bar

By Josh Barr

This article originally appeared in the November/December 2020 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Since its inception, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum has focused on universal accessibility. Well before the …
The Digital Awakening

By Nik Honeysett

This article originally appeared in the November/December 2020 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Global disruption has demonstrated the need for a digital-first approach to online engagement. Those of us who have spent …
Emerging From Crisis

By Arthur Cohen

This article originally appeared in the November/December 2020 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. One of the largest audience research studies aims to help cultural institutions remain relevant through the pandemic and …
AAM Awards 52 Museum Publications Winners in 2020

By American Alliance of Museums

October 30, 2020 – Arlington, VA — Fifty-two museum publications have gained accolades in the 29th annual Museum Publications Design Competition, presented by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). This competition recognizes and …
The Promise of Virtual Education Programs: Cross-Cultural Exchange, School-Museum Collaborations, and STEAM Learning (and Lemurs!)

By Susan Dorsey

To continue providing meaningful experiences for pre-K through twelfth-grade audiences in the era of COVID-19, museums must re-envision educational practice for the virtual realm. By sharing about a pre-COVID virtual education program I …
Essential Evaluators: What’s in Your Soup?

By Rose Jones, Laureen Trainer, and Andréa Giron Mathern

Essential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. This is a time of uncertain and unknown expectations …
Fatigue and Resilience Resources

By Elizabeth Merritt

You may be grappling with the stress created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the prospect of prolonged uncertainty about the outcome of next week’s election, and 2020 generally. I certainly am, as are my colleagues at the Alliance. To help …