Community Engagement & Impact

Beyond the Block: Empowering Incarcerated Artists

As I noted in TrendsWatch 2017, museums’ communities are being buffeted by the economic, cultural, and political fallout from current inequities in the justice system. Increasingly, museums …

Can civic museums become catalysts for social change?

Becca Antink, Thersa

Backpack-Sized Archiving Kit Empowers Community Historians to Record Local Narratives

Allison Meier, Hyperallergic

Are Participant Demographics the Most Useful Single Measure of Community Impact?

Nina Simon, Museumtwo

How a Museum is using American Artifacts to help Immigrants Become Citizens

Grant Opportunity: Museums & Creative Aging

Elizabeth Merritt

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American Alliance of Museums

When an Artist Becomes Director

Scott Stulen

From Stodgy to Story – Glensheen’s historic transformation

Lucie B. Amundsen

What is our museum’s social impact?

Kelly McKinley, Medium

From Beyoncé To Bach: Culture Has Democratized And Museums Are Adapting

Maria Garcia, Wbur

Engaging the System: Museums Working in the Incarceration System

Elizabeth Merritt

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The Art of Recovery: How a Radical Public Art Experiment Is Reshaping Sicily 50 Years After a Devastating Earthquake

Patricia Zohn, artnet News

Facing Change

On a recent day this summer, I left the colorful, urban interventions and crowded revelries of Manifesta 12 in Palermo, Sicily, and descended into the rural, arid Belice Valley. I was …

On Cross Collecting, or Cross-Over Buying

David Bellingham, Sothebysinstitute

Curatorial Practice

Since the start of the new millennium, there has been an increase in cross-collecting (sometimes called 'cross-over buying'). This might seem like a recent phenomenon according to what we …

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Attending Museum Conferences

Cristina Toma

Global Thinking

Two years ago, in 2016, I had the opportunity to attend the AAM Annual Meeting in Washington DC, thanks to the Getty Leadership and Career Management Program Fellowship. Little did I know …