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The Great Pivot: Transitioning from In‐Person to Virtual Fundraising Events at your Museum
This is a recorded session from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. Museum development professionals are canceling in‐person fundraising events as impacts of COVID‐19 continue to have deep ripple effects across the globe. … -
Lessons in Equity from Culturally‐specific Museums
This is a recorded session from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. Many culturally‐specific museums are committed to providing space, a consistent platform, and an authentic voice for people of color. However, as … -
Considering AR or VR? Learn What We Learned from Our Projects and Visitors!
Embarking on an augmented or virtual reality project can be daunting. Learn what to watch out for, account for, and steer toward so you can avoid (or at least prepare for) problems that may arise when producing visitor‐ and staff‐friendly … -
60 Ideas in 60 Minutes: Sizzling Ideas in Audience Engagement and Inclusion
This is a recorded session from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. Watch this recording from the Public Relations and Marketing (PRAM) Professional Network, Visitor Experience Group (VEX), and International Audience … -
How Philadelphia Cultural Institutions Embraced Collaboration to Address Opportunity Gaps
If there is a positive outcome of the pandemic’s impact on cultural institutions, it may be the willingness to ideate and take different approaches to our work to ensure that no one is excluded—particularly low-income communities, where … -
AAM Announces Latest Accreditation Awards: 15 Museums Receive this High Honor
For Immediate Release Arlington, VA – The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, today announced 5 first-time accreditation awards and 10 reaccreditation awards made … -
FIRE! Providing Comfort in a Moment of Crisis
Museums make their communities better, stronger, and more resilient in myriad ways. Some of these are directly related to their missions: enriching local education, improving health and well-being via arts engagement, providing context … -
Saxophonist Exhibit Comes Alive with Safe, Motion-Activated Directional Sound from Audio Spotlight Technology
At the Wood Museum of Springfield History exhibit Horn Man: The Life and Musical Legacy of Charles Neville, several AS-168i Audio Spotlight focused sound speakers provide sanitary, touchless directional audio playlists that highlight the … -
An Investment in Our Collective Future: Building for Staff Advancement from the Inside Out
With the worst of pandemic disruptions behind us (we hope) some museums are using this as an opportunity to rethink their operations, rather than simply rebounding to the previous norm. COVID amplified the inequities between stable and … -
Museum Store Sunday—Five Years and Going Strong!
Is your institution ready for Museum Store Sunday, taking place this year on November 28 (the Sunday after Thanksgiving)? 2021 marks the fifth anniversary of this worldwide museum retail advocacy event—five years of supporting cultural …
Year: 2021
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Contemplating Colonial Echoes: Visitor Perspectives in a Portuguese Museum
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Exhibition Journal
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Rethinking Exhibition Mounts: Bio-Based Prototypes for Low-Carbon Display
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Exhibition Journal
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Entwined Histories of Monstrous Proportions: Preparing Interpreters for Complex and Contentious Topics with Visitors
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Exhibition Journal
This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. …