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Building Audiences
How the Frazier History Museum Is “Bridging the Divide” in Its City
The Frazier History Museum is located on Main Street in Downtown Louisville, Kentucky, at the corner of Ninth Street. What makes our address significant, historically significant, is that …
Monthly Subscriptions Make Membership Easy to Say Yes To
As cultural organizations continue to face declining membership and significant lost revenue during the pandemic, many are seeking ways to engage new audiences and retain existing members. …
An Unconventional Museum Education: Prioritizing Community Need
Ever since I was a student of museum studies at Georgetown University, I’ve been interested in how to embed museums into their communities in more useful and necessary ways. Now, at the …
Rebuilding Pathways: How DEAI and Creative Aging Intersect at the Speed Art Museum
As museums work to become more diverse, equitable, accessible, and inclusive, one community is often left out of the discourse: people over the age of fifty-five. This may be because they …
For Post-Pandemic Success, Get Creative with Distributed Museum Models
As the global pandemic has put a halt to in-person visitation for much of 2020 and brought long-held planning and operational models into question, museum leaders across the country have …
With Rapid Response Collecting, Who Are We Responding To?
After the start of protests over the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent looting of businesses, hundreds of plywood boards went up in Greensboro, North Carolina’s downtown. But these …
Running with Scissors: Creating a Sustainable History Experience (2017-2020)
You may know that Old Salem Museums & Gardens (OSMG) and The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, have been making considerable changes …
How to Start an Accessibility Movement at Your Museum
Think back to a childhood trip to a museum, aquarium, or historic home. Chances are the first thing you heard was a directive: “Hands in pockets and do not touch anything.” …
Building Audience with Intentionality
This article originally appeared in the November/December 2020 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. …
How Might We Transform?
This article originally appeared in the November/December 2020 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. The Interaction Lab at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum seeks …
Setting A Higher Bar
This article originally appeared in the November/December 2020 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Since its inception, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum has …
The Digital Awakening
This article originally appeared in the November/December 2020 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Global disruption has demonstrated the need for a digital-first …