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EO Impacts and the Next Era of Museum Funding Part 3: Charitable Contributions and Investment Income
Welcome to part three of my exploration of the current and potential future impacts of presidential orders and actions on museums’ income streams and business models. If you’re joining midstream, you may want to pause and read the first … -
What’s your wish for U.S.? turns history museums into future-imagining incubators
In 2021, history museums across the nation, working in collaboration with one another and with Gen Z-ers through Made By Us, generated an idea to link together Juneteenth and the Fourth of July in a new tradition – Civic Season. Civic … -
Making membership easy at the Houston Museum of Natural Science
This post is an advertorial written by an organization that serves the museum field. The views, opinions, and positions expressed by the authors and those providing comments are theirs alone and do not necessarily reflect the views, … -
June Advocacy Alert: Invite Congress, Policy Updates, and More
Advocacy Alert – June 13, 2025 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Invite Congress: Show Congress Firsthand the Value of Your Museum Members of Congress are in their home districts the entire month of August, visiting local businesses … -
Better Than Imagined: How a Holocaust Museum Builds Trust and Community
There is a certain kind of experience people think they will have at a Holocaust museum. We understand. Most expectations stem from a narrow view of what is possible. But when you widen the lens and expand the imagination, you see: Imagine … -
Latest on IMLS Court Cases
Advocacy Alert: June 10, 2025 ALA v. Sonderling On June 6, 2025, in the case ALA v. Sonderling filed by Democracy Forward on behalf of the American Library Association and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers, the … -
The Museum Summit: Call for Case Studies
On October 15-16, 2025, the American Alliance of Museums is hosting The Museum Summit. Building on our popular Future of Museums Summit from recent years, the virtual event reaches museum professionals across the field and around the … -
Fostering Psychological Safety in Your Museum: A Step-by-Step Guide
A comprehensive guide on developing a museum workspace where staff feel comfortable and confident about expressing their ideas and concerns without worrying about negative consequences. This tipsheet was developed by Ashley Witherspoon, … -
EO Impacts and the Next Era of Museum Funding Part 2: Earned Income
This is the second installment in a series of essays exploring the impact of executive orders and actions on museum income streams. It summarizes what we know about the immediate, accumulating effect of these actions, as well as offering … -
Beyond the IT Office: Solving for Ethical AI in Cultural Institutions
This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2025) Vol. 44 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in museums is nothing new—we’ve seen iterations of it in exhibitions for almost a decade. …
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