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IMPs Talk: Strengthening Collaborations

By American Alliance of Museums

Handout of additional resources Slides from webinar As an IMP, do you feel like it’s you against the world? Are you trying to figure everything out on your own? Are we all going for the same projects? And what about clients? Do you wish …
Contact Your Legislators and Get Ready for Invite Congress

By American Alliance of Museums

Advocacy Alert – July 15, 2022 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Take Action: Urge Your Legislators to Support the Office of Museum Services (OMS) Get Ready: #InviteCongress is August 15-19! Attention Nonprofit Employers: “Did …
Blues on the Block: Connecting Communities through Live Music, Rhythm, and Public Health

By Erin Simon

The National Blues Museum was one of ninety-one museums, libraries, and cultural or tribal organizations that leveraged their position as trusted community partners to help bolster vaccine confidence in their communities as part of …
Your Self-care Prescription: News Positivity

By Elizabeth Merritt

Reporters at Axios recently summarized data documenting a steep drop-off in news consumption in the past six months. Evidently, the relentless thunder of traumatic events is driving more and more people offline in an effort to preserve …
Tips For Developing a Contract “Exit Strategy”

By Cecelia Walls

Download a PDF copy of this tipsheet. The American Alliance of Museums offers the following information from Sharon M. Hotchkiss, Attorney at Law. The information shared here is based on the best available information as of publication. …
Transferring Trust: An Art-Based Public Health Campaign Reveals the Key to Community Resilience

By Vida Mikalcius

It’s no secret that the pandemic hit certain communities harder than others. Disasters—be they environmental, social, or public-health-related—often have this effect, exposing inequity both in who can shield themselves from impacts and who …
Immersive Experiences in Museums: A Look at Art Windsor-Essex’s “Against the Current”

By Maglyn Bertrand

To say that a lot has changed for cultural institutions and museums in the past few years is an understatement. This is a time when visitors, who have spent the last two years enduring a global pandemic, are consuming professional and …
Point of View: Ending Business as Usual

By Richard V. Piacentini

With a regenerative approach, every museum can address clim…
Point of View: Think Globally, Act Locally

By Joyce S. Lee

By focusing on sustainability, museums can also help make their communities more just and…
From the President and CEO: Meeting the Climate Change Challenge

By Laura Lott

AAM’s vision is “a just and sustainable world informed and enriched by thriving museums that contribute to the resiliency and equity of their communities.” I am constantly impressed and inspired by how museum professionals embody this …