2023 – American Alliance of Museums

TrendsWatch: Creating the Post Pandemic Workplace

By American Alliance of Museums

As the immediate challenges posed by the pandemic fade, museums face a landscape of work and labor profoundly altered by the stressors of the past three years. The balance of work from on site, hybrid, and remote has undergone long-term …
December Advocacy Updates – Speaking up for Museums in 2024

By American Alliance of Museums

Advocacy Alert – December 15, 2023 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Register Today: Museums Advocacy Day 2024 in Washington, D.C., Feb. 26-27 Take Action: Contact Congress in Support of OMS Funding News: U.S. Interior Department …
The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2023

By Joseph O'Neill

2023 was a year of deep reflection for museums, both inward and outward. Facing continued disruptions from the long tail of the pandemic—especially to staffing, attendance, and finances—the field examined its inherited structures and …
The Top Ten Museum Junction Threads of 2023

By Joseph O'Neill

If you aren’t already a regular visitor to Museum Junction, AAM’s online discussion forum for museum people, now’s a great time to join! This long-running community, frequented by knowledgeable and generous museum colleagues, gained a host …
Twelve Museum Innovations in 2023

By Joseph O'Neill

Dispatches from the Center for the Future of Museums is a museum newsletter like none other, offering far-reaching analysis of emerging social, technological, economic, environmental, and political trends and how they might impact our …
10 Tips for Creating an Engaging Museum Website

By Francesca Parker

The American Alliance of Museums offers the following information from Francesca Parker, Director of Project Management at Purple Rock Scissors. The information shared here is based on the best available information as of publication. …
Seeding the Future at the New Children’s Museum

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’m a huge fan of speculative fiction—stories with the power to immerse us in the daily reality of possible futures deeply and viscerally. We can fall in love with fiction in a way we rarely love academic research or formal foresight. As a …
External Pressures on Museum-Going: A 2023 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Data Story

By Susie Wilkening

This visual Data Story is based on findings from the 2023 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers, a national survey of American museum visitors from AAM and Wilkening Consulting. Every year, the survey partners with individual museums to research …
Curatorial Chatbot: An Experiment with AI at the Nasher Museum of Art

By Elizabeth Merritt

CFM has explored museum applications of artificial intelligence (AI) since 2017, notably business analytics, customer service, collections data analysis, and provenance research. Today on the blog, Julianne Miao tells us how the Nasher …
AAM Announces Latest Accreditation Awards: 43 Museums Achieve This Distinction

By American Alliance of Museums

For Immediate Release Arlington, VA – The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, today announced 2 first time accreditations and 41 reaccreditation awards made at …