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Women’s Locker Room Talk: Gender and Leadership in Museums

By Kaywin Feldman

Kaywin Feldman is the Duncan and Nivin MacMillan Director and President of the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) since 2008. She also serves on the boards of National Arts Strategies, the Chipstone Foundation, and the American Alliance of …
AAM’s Organizational Culture: It’s About How We Work

By Laura Lott

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Anatomy of a Lunchtime Conversation

By AAM Editor

Last week we noticed an intriguing Twitter conversation originating from a question Chad Weinard posed to the Twitterverse. The resulting conversation meanders in several directions addressing what museums could learn from tech companies, …
Failing Forward: On Web Accessibility

By Robert Stein

So we’re a few weeks into the launch of our new Alliance Labs initiative here at AAM and already we’re learning a lot. In fact, the work of bringing our team together to launch this effort at all helped us to learn many different things. …
Introducing Alliance Labs

By Robert Stein

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On Diversity and Inclusion

By Brooke Leonard

I must admit: writing this blog post about AAM’s work in diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion is humbling. In spite of the fact that I grew up in an African American-majority community, attended a majority-minority high school …
Girls Design the World

By Megan Lantz

How can teens play a role in solving some of the most urgent environmental issues of our time? That is one of the questions 42 girls from Minneapolis, Minnesota and Nairobi, Kenya considered through Girls Design the World, an international …