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2019 Annual Meeting

Soundtrack for an Equitable Conference

By Janeen Bryant
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Cradled in soulful New Orleans, the 2019 American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting offered a variety of new sights and sounds in one of the most culturally diverse cities in the United …

Making Space for Community Partners

By Ravon Ruffin
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The Advantages of Being a Small Museum

By Carissa Pfeiffer
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Get about It: Change and Resistance

By Linda Norris
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An International Experience at #AAM2019

By Angela Gala
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What Happened at #AAM2019? Let Our Social Media Journalists Fill You In

By Joseph O'Neill

We Need a Radically Different System

By Kippen de Alba Chu
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Financial Sustainability Is Everyone’s Responsibility

By Laura Lott

#AAM2019 Keynote: Kippen de Alba Chu and Kimberly Drew

By American Alliance of Museums
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Follow #AAM2019 From Anywhere

By Joseph O'Neill

Read Up on Financial Sustainability for #AAM2019

By Joseph O'Neill

I Can Haz Cryptokitties and You Can Too

By Elizabeth Merritt
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It Is Time to Include AANHPIs In Museum Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion Efforts

By Edward Tepporn
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Category: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion
Over the past year, we have all witnessed the increasing acts of hate and violence against Asian Americans, particularly against women and the elderly. Some have tried to cast these …

Statement on the Verdict of the State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin

By American Alliance of Museums
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As interpreters and educators of history and culture, museums and museum professionals have borne witness and recorded our nation’s reckoning with issues of racial inequities in the past …

Get Vaccinated Under the Blue Whale at the American Museum of Natural History

By More by Jasmine Weber, Hyperallergic
Category: COVID-19

Starting Friday, April 23, New Yorkers can get their COVID-19 jabs directly under the famed blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History. While the AMNH vaccination site will be …

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