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US Department of the Interior’s Toolkit for Working with Partners to Manage Museum Collections*

By Elizabeth Varner
Collection agreements are critical for sustaining vibrant museums and ensuring their stability, because they protect museums and museum collections and establish clear expectations. These …

Museums as a Pink Collar Profession

By Joan Baldwin
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Closing the GAAP on Direct Care

By Lori Breslauer and Sarah Ebel

#WhyILoveMuseums: See the inspiring responses!

By Joseph O'Neill

The Mission-Driven Café: When doing the wrong thing is the right thing to do

By Larry Bain
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Four Things I Learned When I Started Thinking about Museum Accessibility

By Ryan Saglio
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A Place at the Table: Developing diversity and next-generation leaders

By Lynn Miller
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From a Teacher: How to make your museum field trips ones to remember for students and staff

By Claudia Bartow
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Show Congress How Vital Museums Are – Advocate from Anywhere During Museums Advocacy Day!

By Ember Farber
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When Dual Leadership Works, 1+1=3

By Jill Stilwell

A Totally Inclusive Museum

By Cecile Shellman

Museums Should Take Notes from Black Panther and Beyoncé: How to engage visitors in difficult discussions using popular media

By Stacey Ingram Kaleh
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What’s Wrong With This Diorama? You Can Read All About It

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Category: Exhibitions
On the first floor of the American Museum of Natural History, a diorama depicts an imagined 17th-century meeting between Dutch settlers and the Lenape, an Indigenous tribe inhabiting New …

Good Teaching is Good Teaching: English Learners and Museums

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Category: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion
Dr. Veronica Alvarez, Director of School and Teacher Programs, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). After walking up a dark staircase from a concrete parking lot, this is the view that …

Introducing TrendsWatch 2019

By Elizabeth Merritt
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Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
The Alliance’s annual forecasting report is now available! The new edition of TrendsWatch explores truth and trust, decolonization, blockchain, homelessness and housing insecurity, and …