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A Season of Kindness

Much like museums, my daughter’s school distributes a quarterly calendar at which I typically glance to note important dates like the ubiquitous school closings, PTA meetings, and volunteer …

Making it all about Them: the New Bedford Whaling Museum High School Apprenticeship Program

Christina Turner

Museopunks Episode 31: Are Museums “Safe Spaces for Unsafe Ideas?”

Suse Anderson

Students Solve a History Mystery and Teach a Lesson in Collaboration

April Hattori and Jean-Paul Maitinsky

Unpacking Our Understanding of Immersion

Ed Rodley

What Mexican bugs have to do with Italian Paintings: How digital tools can be used to explore complex connections

Gretchen Halverson

Simple Ways Museums Can Use Content Marketing to Engage Their Audiences (and Attract New Ones)

Jennifer Phillips April

Small Museums Go Big

American Alliance of Museums

Learning Cultural Competence

Jenni Martin

A Case Study—in Progress—of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Brand Refresh

Linda Butler and Jennifer Sonderby

Where the Seats Have No Name: In Defense of Museum Benches

David Whitemyer

Museum Store Sunday: A Tale of One City

Lori Brazos

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How Can Museums Empower Communities? TACA Perforum

Elizabeth Merritt

Center for the Future Of Museums Blog

Last month I had the honor of speaking on a panel organized by The Arts Community Alliance (TACA) in Dallas, hosted by the Nasher Sculpture Center. Every year TACA brings together speakers …

Rethinking the modern house museum

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A corkscrewing creation in the Arizona desert, the David and Gladys Wright House boasts an impressive pedigree. Built in 1952, this three-bedroom nautilus of a home, designed by …

American Alliance of Museums Announces One Newly Accredited Museum and 15 Reaccreditations

Joseph Klem

Press Release

Accredited at the October 2018 meeting of the Alliance's Accreditation Commission, 16 museums have demonstrated they meet standards and best practices and represented themselves as …