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Collecting Girlhood: Why the new activist museum is virtual

By Tiffany Rhoades Isselhardt

The assumption that museums must be permanent buildings with physical collections is no longer sustainable. With decreased funding, increased competition, and the burden of care, museums have had to reimagine themselves. Some small …
Visit These Museums During #AAM2019 in New Orleans

By American Alliance of Museums

Why come to New Orleans for the 2019 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo? In addition to picking up new skills, sharing your knowledge and expertise, and finding new tools to help you succeed, there are all of these fascinating museums to …
Outside the Collection Box: Connecting community with collections via augmented reality

By M. Anne Basham

Immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), and cross reality (XR) are quickly gaining momentum as a mass media tool deployable in all areas of industry and society, which has …
Meet Marabou! The furry, friendly creature reimagining the museum

By Megan Elevado

When you visit a museum, do you feel empowered? Do you feel like you have authority and control of your experience? That’s why Marabou is here: to remind us that we all have agency in our museum experiences. Marabou is a rainbow-colored …
Hiring Tips to Create Value and Inclusion for all Disciplines in Museums

By Ayanna Reed

There are qualified and diverse candidates out there who may not be aware that museums are a sustainable career option for them—it’s our job as a field to recruit and retain this virtually untapped market. One important way to achieve this …
Join the Conversation on Museums and Creative Aging

By Bill Tramposch

Calling all kindred spirits! Museums and the field of “creative aging” have a wonderful future together. As Aroha Fellow for Museums and Creative Aging for the next two years, I would like to explain clearly the intents of our …
Museums as a Pink Collar Profession

By Joan Baldwin

This week, my colleagues at GEMM (the Gender Equity in Museums Movement) published their second white paper, Museums as a Pink Collar Profession. GEMM’s paper poses some complex questions about our field. Among other things, it asks …
Closing the GAAP on Direct Care

By Lori Breslauer and Sarah Ebel

As lawyers with backgrounds in horticulture (Lori) and material culture studies (Sarah), we never thought we would be passionate about an accounting rule. Yet here we are. In 2015 we wrote a white paper suggesting a revision to an …
#WhyILoveMuseums: See the inspiring responses!

By Joseph O'Neill

March 13 was #WhyILoveMuseums Day, a social media movement started by Mar Dixon, a consultant who has led monthly hashtags for the cultural field from her @CultureThemes platform for almost a decade. Mar tells us that she founded …
The Mission-Driven Café: When doing the wrong thing is the right thing to do

By Larry Bain

Ask most museum directors, restaurant consultants, and other knowledgeable folks and they will tell you: “Hire an outside food-service company to run your café.” Well, that makes perfect sense—that is what most museums choose to do. The …