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How are you advocating for #museums this summer?

By Ember Farber

Ember Farber is the director of Advocacy at the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). In that role, she communicates with AAM’s advocate network and the field about federal policy issues and advocacy opportunities through legislative and …
Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News 7/14/2017

By Liz Neely

1. This week craft retail store Hobby Lobby was all over the news when it agreed to pay a $3 million fine and forfeit thousands of ancient Iraqi relics smuggled into the United States wrongly labelled as samples for its stores. …
Watch Featured Speaker Haben Girma from the 2017 Annual Meeting

By jmorin

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Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News 7/7/2017

By Liz Neely

1. Happy 30th birthday to the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago! I remember visiting the museum back in its early days, under a previous name and before significant expansions. The Chicago Tribune’s Lori Waxman reviews the museum’s …
The Museum Sector and the Paris Agreement

By Sarah Sutton

Sarah Sutton is principal of Sustainable Museums, a museum consultancy. She is also a member of the PIC-Green Professional Network. The very day President Donald Trump announced that the United States would not sign on to the Paris climate …
Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News 6/30/2017

By Liz Neely

I hope everyone is celebrating independence in advance of our upcoming July 4th holiday! This week’s Roundup shares stories about social bridging, serving new audiences, learning from controversy, and creative techniques for audience …
3 Questions with the Nichols House Museum

By Cecelia Walls

Over the past few week’s we’ve heard from the Imagine Children’s Museum, the Mob Museum, and the Museum of Danish America on what it means to achieve accreditation. This week we hear from Victoria McKay, executive …
10 Things We’ve Learned About Unbiased Hiring Practices at AAM

By Katherine McNamee

Last fall, I was a guest presenter in an AAM Webinar on unbiased hiring where I shared some blind screening techniques that we have begun incorporating into our hiring practices at AAM. With several recruitment efforts now concluded, my …
Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News 6/23/2017

By Liz Neely

1. Lonnie G. Bunch III, founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), offers his perspective on the noose that was placed at NMAAHC and other locations on the National Mall. This is a must read …
3 Questions with the Museum of Danish America

By Cecelia Walls

Over the past two week’s we’ve heard from the Imagine Children’s Museum and the Mob Museum on what it means to achieve accreditation. This week we hear from Rasmus Thøgersen from the Museum of Danish America. 1. What does …