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How to Win Friends and Influence People by Attending Museum Conferences

Two years ago, in 2016, I had the opportunity to attend the AAM Annual Meeting in Washington DC, thanks to the Getty Leadership and Career Management Program Fellowship. Little did I know …

El museo, actor sociopolítico / The Museum as socio-political actor

¿Qué es la valentía en las organizaciones? / Brave Organizations

El arte de ser relevantes / The Art of Relevance

Ecologías Queer / Queer Ecology

The Latest from Museopunks!

American Alliance of Museums

What makes K-12 public school educators choose to use a museum as part of their curriculum?

Amber Geary

Reinforcement Crew: A Look Back

Libby Krecek,

Out of the Blue: A Punderful Session About Out-of-the-Box Thinking

Juliana Venegas

Tips and Takeaways from the Historic House Summit: Starting the Marathon of Digital Content Strategy

Zachary Wnek

Leveling the Playing Field at Sugar Hill

Elizabeth Merritt

AAM’s New Code of Conduct Inspires Conversation About Gender

Andrea Jones

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Latest Stories from AAM

The Art of Recovery: How a Radical Public Art Experiment Is Reshaping Sicily 50 Years After a Devastating Earthquake

Patricia Zohn, artnet News

Facing Change

On a recent day this summer, I left the colorful, urban interventions and crowded revelries of Manifesta 12 in Palermo, Sicily, and descended into the rural, arid Belice Valley. I was …

On Cross Collecting, or Cross-Over Buying

David Bellingham, Sothebysinstitute

Curatorial Practice

Since the start of the new millennium, there has been an increase in cross-collecting (sometimes called 'cross-over buying'). This might seem like a recent phenomenon according to what we …

A Conversation with Kathleen McLean

Career Management

Kathleen McLean is the recipient of the 2018 AAM Distinguished Service to Museums Award, which recognizes an individual’s excellence and contributions to the museum field for at least 20 …