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October Advocacy Updates – Fall Advocacy and Speak Up for Museums

By American Alliance of Museums

In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Speak Up for Museums: October Appropriations Update Resources: Was your Museum Impacted by the Hurricane? Mark Your Calendars: Museums Advocacy Day 2025 in Arlington, VA & Washington, D.C., Feb. 24-25 …
Cost of Admissions and Museum Visitation: A 2024 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Data Story

By Susie Wilkening

This visual Data Story is based on findings from the 2024 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 …
Getting Civic with Gen Z: A Q&A with Caroline Klibanoff of Made By Us

By Adam Rozan

As museum staff, our workdays are filled with time-consuming tasks, our to-do lists constantly expanding with emails to write, memos to produce, projects to advance, and programs to put on. In all of this, it’s easy to lose the …
Research Insights from AAM’s Museum Board Leadership Survey

By American Alliance of Museums

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. What is the state of museum governance today? Hear the results of AAM’s Museum Board Leadership survey, including critical benchmarking data on governance …
Historical Connections: Working with Living Artists in the Museum Setting

By Shirley Reece-Hughes and Maggie Adler

Since its founding in 1961, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) has championed the voices of American artists, openly sharing their creativity by providing the public with free and open access to the museum. In addition to …
Repeat Visitation at Museums: A 2024 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Data Story

By Susie Wilkening

This visual Data Story is based on findings from the 2024 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 …
Supporting a Storied Society: Elevating Local Collections Care

By Spacesaver

When residents of Walworth County, Wisconsin, seek to uncover their lineage or learn about the heroic efforts of their ancestors, they turn to the Walworth County Historical Society (WCHS). This invaluable resource, now centralized in one …
Curating Trauma and Violence: Preparing and Caring for Communities and Staff

By American Alliance of Museums

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In this recorded session, museum professionals from various institutions – a museum focused on the Holocaust, a museum telling stories related to terrorist …
Museum Social Impact in Practice Launches with Forty Museum Participants

By American Alliance of Museums

Arlington, VA–Today, the American Alliance of Museums announced forty museums participating in the upcoming Museum Social Impact in Practice (MSIIP) cohort, which will launch in Fall 2024. MSIIP responds to the challenge museums of …
Confronting Colonialism: Intersections of Scientific and Cultural Knowledge

By American Alliance of Museums

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Natural History museums play a unique and urgent role in helping document and understand the world’s plants and animals during the current biodiversity and …