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Hope for the Future and Museums: Enthusiasm and Resistance—A 2024 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Data Story
For many of us who work in the museum field, the idea of "hope" feels like a positive outcome of a museum visit, and thus worthy of cultivation. Fortunately, most museum-goers agree! As we saw in our introductory Data Story on hope, … -
Scrappy Ways to Get Your Museum in the News
For many museums—especially small- or medium-sized institutions where everyone wears multiple hats—a marketing department is a luxury, let alone dedicated media relations staff. For those without experience dealing with the press, the … -
Hope for the Future and Museums: A 2024 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Data Story
In the 2024 survey, we specifically considered the importance of hope in motivating museum-goers to take a more positive and proactive approach to the future. To find out what the public thinks about museums and hope, we asked a series of … -
Cultivating the Next Generation of Black Museum Leaders: The AAAM x Howard University Advanced Executive Training
The Association of African American Museums (AAAM) stands as the principal voice of the African American museum movement, providing support, respite, and abundant educational opportunities. For more than four decades, AAAM has successfully … -
Reduce Uncertainty, Increase Confidence: How Internal Audit Supports Museums’ Success
We’ve all seen the dreaded headlines: “How many treasures have been stolen from the British Museum?” “Grief and Anger Mingle After Devastating Brazil Museum Fire” “How the Mona Lisa almost came to a watery end at the Metropolitan Museum of … -
Botting: Methodology—A 2024 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Data Story
Unfortunately, sometimes malicious web-crawlers comb social media for online surveys, spamming them with fake responses. These fake respondents or “bots” use automated tools to complete surveys many, many times and often ve… -
The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2024
The museum field has emphasized ethics and standards for at least a century—in fact, the need to solidify them was one of the primary reasons for the founding of AAM in 1906. And yet, it’s fair to say we live in a time of heightened … -
The Most Active Museum Junction Threads of 2024
Thanks to a recent renovation, AAM’s community forum Museum Junction is bigger and better than ever, with a host of new features and a growing list of nearly thirty branch communities in categories like emerging professionals, … -
Twelve Museum Innovations in 2024
Every week, Dispatches from the Center for the Future of Museums gives you an update on how the future is looking, for our world and for our field. In addition to broad signals of social, technological, economic, environmental, and … -
Following the Attendance Numbers: A Q&A with Angie Judge
Every so often, a new museum is announced, its size in the hundreds of thousands of square feet, its cost in the millions, and its interior and exterior spaces imagined in visionary drawings featuring galleries filled with collections and …
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Social Experiences and Museums, Part Three: A 2025 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Data Story
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Alliance Blog
This visual Data Story is based on findings from the 2025 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers, …
Insights into Making Museum Career Moves
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On-Demand Programs
Whether you’re a student, emerging professional, or seasoned museum leader, this webinar …
AAM Statement on the Theft of the Oakland Museum of California’s Collection
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Press Release
For Immediate Release We were deeply saddened to learn of the theft of approximately …