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Setting the stage for my career path: Maria Marable Bunch Excellence in Practice award winner reflects on her career.

By Maria Marable Bunch
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Each year AAM’s Education Committee (EdCom) Professional Network recognizes outstanding museum educators and supporters, programs and resources that exemplify excellence. The 2018 Award of …

10 Career Tips From The First Woman To Lead The Smithsonian Air And Space Museum

By Joan Michelson, Forbes

Call for Applications: Aroha Fellowship for Museums & Creative Aging

By Elizabeth Merritt
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Our Shared Responsibility: A conversation with Joanne Jones-Rizzi

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A Conversation with Kathleen McLean

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A Conversation with Hallie Winter

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Speaking as a Listener

By Sam Theriault
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Sketchnote-taking: Suggestions from Shaelyn

By Shaelyn Amaio
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Finding Ways to Respect the Past (But not the way you think)

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Take time to reflect on the AAM Annual Meeting

By Seema Rao
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What’s the Best Path to a Top Museum Job? We Analyzed the Training of 100 Curators to Find Out

By Brian Boucher, artnet News

Receiving the Nancy Hanks award (and what the heck is professional development, anyway)

By Emily Graslie
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Is It Time to Break Your Museum’s Organizational Mold?

By Mark Sundlov
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Category: Financial Sustainability
Over the course of the twentieth century, and into today, museums have witnessed dramatic changes in their organizational and funding environments—some driven from within the museum field, …

A Snoopy license plate delivers more than mere peanuts to California museums

By Phil Kohlmetz
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Category: Advocacy
A special interest license plate is certainly an unconventional way to raise money for museums, and Snoopy’s path to plate-dom was certainly unconventional. But in late 2015, after nearly …

Stone Soup

By Elizabeth Merritt
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Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
We’ve reached another milestone in the celebration of the Center for the Future of Museum’s first decade of work: the 10th anniversary of the CFM Blog. I think that the first …