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Every Museum Needs a Civic Strategy. Here’s How to Find Yours.

By Sarah Jencks

In a recent New York Times article, landscape architect and MacArthur Grant winner Walter Hood described museums as “the new civic spaces, where honest conversations can be had.” While this is certainly not always the case—it feels …
Beyond Financial Sustainability: Nourishing a Healthy Financial Ecosystem

By American Alliance of Museums

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Financial sustainability has long and rightfully been among the primary strategic goals of museums and their staff and Boards – but what if the drive for …
Museums and Community Archiving: A Collaborative Approach

By American Alliance of Museums

This is a recorded flash session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In this session, attendees will be empowered and inspired to work more closely with community collecting initiatives in their vicinity and beyond. Learn …
Impact Investing: Putting Your Museum’s Money Where Your Values Are

By American Alliance of Museums

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Across the United States Museums hold an estimated $58B in endowments, which are a critical source of annual funding and support for special projects. These …
Where does my museum start with the new NAGPRA regulations

By American Alliance of Museums

The following guidance was developed with the assistance of subject matter experts in the museum field. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), enacted in 1990, is a landmark federal law that requires federal …
Education for Our Children

By Elizabeth Merritt

This is an excerpt from TrendsWatch: Museums as Community Infrastructure. The full report is available as a free PDF download. “Given the challenges we face, education doesn’t need to be reformed—it needs to be transformed.” —Sir Ken …
Robust Research, Healthy Communities

By Carys Kunze

Attending this year’s AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo, one of my priorities was to take in some of the rich variety of research-related sessions on offer. I was particularly interested to see how presenters would connect the …
The Greater Good: A Q&A with Author Sandy Skees on Purpose

By Adam Rozan

If you know me and follow this series, you probably know about my obsession with purpose and its power to make good organizations great. When I come across a book or article on purpose, I have to read it, as I did with Sandy Skees’s …
What Can Museums Learn from the Connected Learning Framework?

By Joseph O'Neill

How would you try to convince a naysayer of the value of arts education? Maybe you would plead for the value of these subjects in their own right, citing the mind-expanding powers of self-expression, technical exploration, and human …
Right-Sizing the World

By Elizabeth Merritt

This excerpt is adapted from TrendsWatch: Museums as Community Infrastructure. The full report is available as a free PDF download. “I don’t know why people feel unhappy when the curve of a graph fails to keep going up, but they do. Even …