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Adapting to a Hybrid Reality: Accelerating a Digital Methodology and Mindset at Your Institution
Physical closures and capacity reductions due to COVID-19 forced museums and galleries to find new ways to showcase content and programming to a greater audience, accelerating the shift towards digital. While articles abound about the … -
Strengthening Our Core: How Defining Shared Values Can Revitalize Teams
All aquariums, zoos, and museums have core values—beliefs, philosophies, and principles that drive the organization. These values support the organization’s vision, shape its culture, and ensure that all employees are working towards the … -
Supporting Your Volunteer Program through Risk Management and More
Since the release of the Designing a Museum Volunteer Program toolkit, museum professionals have faced many upheavals in the past year and a half, all while managing their museums day-to-day and preparing for the future. In the third and … -
CAREapy: Research With, Not On: Engaging in Authentic Collaboration with Communities
In 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, and the subsequent national and worldwide protests, along with too many other events to list, drew attention to systemic racism in focused and unignorable ways and demanded … -
10 Ways to Gain the Loyalty of Return Visitors
Attracting return visitors hasn’t always been a priority marketing objective for museums. But after a year when tourism dwindled to a trickle worldwide, museums have learned an important lesson: don’t forget about your local and repea… -
The next COVID scenario: Delta Force
The near term future is looking much brighter than it was in March 2020, when I published my first set of scenarios exploring how the COVID-19 pandemic might play out. While the death toll in the US has surpassed 600,000 (a grim statistic … -
FY 2022 Appropriations & Invite Congress to Visit Your Museum
Advocacy Alert – June 16, 2021 Urge Your Representative to Support the Office of Museum Services (OMS) As reported in our last Alliance Advocacy Alert, the Alliance continues its efforts to include museums in a major infrastructure … -
Excite, Build, Consider: A Structure for Open and Honest Feedback in Project Development
One challenge we’ve all probably faced in collaborative program and exhibit development/design is creating a space for open and honest feedback. We know candid feedback is crucial for aligning the outcome of a project with its stated goals … -
A National Collaboration Unites Black Museums in Celebration of Juneteenth
African American museums across the country bear a glorious responsibility to educate and engage, to inform and inspire, to bring together and build. As anchors for this engagement throughout the year, we celebrate cultural holidays, from … -
Digital Readiness and Pandemic Adaptations
On February 10, 2021, the American Alliance of Museums and the John S. Knight Foundation hosted an online conversation about “Digital Readiness and Pandemic Adaptations.” The webinar recording and transcription are available to AAM members …
Year: 2021
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A Foresight Take on Proposed Government Funding Regulations
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Two weeks ago, we took one (more) step towards a future in which the risks of government …
June Advocacy Alert: Proposed OMB Grant Rules, Appropriations on the move, and Invite Congress
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Advocacy Alert
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Digital Innovations in Public Experiences at Jewish Museums
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On-Demand Programs
In this moderated discussion with two senior museum leaders working to reimagine a …