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Accessible Communications Guidelines

By Danielle Linzer and Madison Zalopany

Advisors: Alex Ying Chen, Bojana Coklyat, Sky Cubacub, Dawn Koceja, and Emmanuel Von Schack Download a PDF version of this guide. Introduction Over sixty million adults in the United States, or one in four Americans, live with a …
Guidelines for Site Accessibility at Virtual Events

By American Alliance of Museums

Download a PDF copy of this guide. As virtual events continue to expand, it is important to understand potential barriers that can arise for people with disabilities. There are a variety of platforms available for hosting events, and they …
Changemaking and Museums for Civic Learning

By American Alliance of Museums

Civic learning is about nurturing our shared civic imagination and restoring our community fabric—endeavors that are more important than ever. We believe that museums have everything to offer and a great deal to learn as part of this …
Building Emotional Intelligence Through Play

By Anne Fullenkamp

An exhibition at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh uses the movie Inside Out to teach children about thei…
The Key to Conservation

By Elif M. Gokcigdem, Jim Wharton, Michele Miller Houck, Kristin Dean, and Laurie Stuart

Three zoos and aquariums are designing environmental empathy into …
Point of View: Harnessing an Untapped Power

By Zorana Ivcevic Pringle

Museums can use emotions to encourage empathy, inspire action, and build …
The Secrets of Emotion

By Pablo P. L. Tinio

Psychological science offers myriad opportunities for measuring emotional responses to the museum …
Empathy Check (and why it’s not a cliché)

By Victoria Edwards

An exhibition on African American women’s hair became a space for the African diasporic perspective to be seen, heard, valued, and better …
From the President: Practicing Empathetic Leadership

By Laura Lott

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Like many of you, my family and I have really missed going to museums. Until last spring, I was averaging a museum visit a …
Invitation to Introspection

By Heike Winterheld and Josh Gutwill

The Exploratorium’s free, outdoor exhibition helped people understand the factors that contribute to both compassion and po…