Recent Posts by Joseph O'Neill
The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2021
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Alliance Blog
Though 2021 was a slightly more normal year than 2020, with mostly open museums gradually regaining visitors, the pandemic still loomed large and colored most conversations. On the Alliance …
The Top 10 Most Anticipated Events at #AAM2021
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Alliance Blog
One of the benefits of hosting a virtual conference, as AAM is doing with the continuation of the 2021 Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo on June 7-9, is that it introduces a bunch of new …
Viva La Vida: Creative Aging at the National Museum of Mexican Art
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Alliance Blog
Like many of the museums that have discussed their creative aging work for our “Museums and Aging” series, the National Museum of Mexican Art participates in Seeding Vitality …
The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2020
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Alliance Blog
If 2019 was a “whirlwind year,” 2020 was a full-blown tornado. Forces that had been gathering speed in the museum field—like growing emphases on digital content and diversity, equity, …
The Shifting Sands of Excellence: A Q&A with Accreditation Leaders
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Alliance Blog
One of AAM’s closest-watched programs is Accreditation, the flagship program on a continuum that measures and confers excellence, giving museums an external seal of credibility which …
How Will Museums Haunt Us This Halloween?
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Alliance Blog
If you’re up for an extra dose of eeriness in this already odd year, you’re in luck! Halloween is imminent, and even in a pandemic museums have plans to mark the occasion. …