Career Management

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

Joan Michelson, Forbes

Ellen Stofan made a deliberate decision to step back from her management career in aerospace to spend more time with her kids knowing she may have shut the door on those opportunities …

Call for Applications: Aroha Fellowship for Museums & Creative Aging

Elizabeth Merritt

Our Shared Responsibility: A conversation with Joanne Jones-Rizzi

A Conversation with Kathleen McLean

A Conversation with Hallie Winter

Speaking as a Listener

Sam Theriault

Sketchnote-taking: Suggestions from Shaelyn

Shaelyn Amaio

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

Take time to reflect on the AAM Annual Meeting

Seema Rao

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

Brian Boucher, artnet News

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

Emily Graslie

Leaving the Museum Field

Sarah Erdman, Claudia Ocello, Dawn Estabrooks Salerno, and Marieke Van Damme

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Influence of Museums

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