Career Management

Sketchnote-taking: Suggestions from Shaelyn

By Shaelyn Amaio

When I was packing to head to Phoenix for AAM2018, I stuffed my suitcase full of dresses to be ready for the Arizona heat, jackets to be ready for the convention-center air conditioning, and a whole bunch of different pens and highlighters …
Take time to reflect on the AAM Annual Meeting

By Seema Rao

Museum workers often fulfill singular positions in their institutions. The annual American Alliance of Museums (AAM) conference is one chance to meet up with global peers. These tribespeople understand the nuances of the work, and so …
Name Badge Faces *OUT* (& Other Conference Suggestions…) Beatty ‘s Maxim #5

By Bob Beatty

This post was originally published on Medium, March 20, 2018. Republished here with permission. The past decade or so, I have marked the true beginning of spring not with the flowers blooming or my allergies acting up, but with the start …
Receiving the Nancy Hanks award (and what the heck is professional development, anyway)

By Emily Graslie

Emily Graslie is Chief Curiosity Correspondent for The Field Museum in Chicago, and the host, creator, and writer for its educational YouTube series, The Brain Scoop @ehmee Around this time last year I received an email from Elizabeth …
Leaving the Museum Field

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

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Leadership, and Why You Need a SWOT Analysis (and a Personal Board of Directors)

By Greg Stevens

Recently, I was poking around on LinkedIn, and found a couple of short posts that caught my attention. One was How to Do a SWOT Analysis on Yourself (and Why You Need One) by speaker, professor, and author Andy Molinsky; the other was Why …
Strategizing Me: Making a Personal Career Plan Effective leaders create mission statements to shape their museum careers.

By Anne W. Ackerson

The one thing that can be said universally about people who work in the museum profession is that they’re here by choice. Nobody really twisted anybody’s arm to work among beautiful objects or bewildering specimens, with fascinating or …
Museum Directors on Mentorship and Their Professional Journeys

By Michael E. Shapiro

All museum directors started off as young people trying to find their way. Recently, in a series of interviews conducted for the book Eleven Museums / Eleven Directors: Conversations on Art & Leadership, art museum directors spoke …
Strategizing Me: Make a Personal Career Plan

By Anne W. Ackerson

This article appeared in the March/April 2017 issue of Museum magazine. Effective leaders create mission statements to shape their museum careers. The one thing that can be said universally about people who work in the museum profession …
A perspective on the educational value of museum internships

By Emily Surman

One of the things I love most about museums is the way they make history come alive—that’s why I applied to be an intern at the National Museum of American History. I wanted to experience firsthand the work that goes into creating a space …