COVID-19

The below list is a compilation of content related to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis

Tales from Campus: how a collections-based seminar went virtual

By Elizabeth Merritt

All museums have had their worlds turned upside-down in the past year, but college and university museums and galleries face a specific set of challenges. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, as this academic year began only 27 …
Congress in Recess – Keep Up the Pressure

By American Alliance of Museums

Support Field-Wide Advocacy for Museum Relief: The current crisis is taking a distressing financial toll on cultural organizations, and AAM is no different. In these challenging times, we ask that if you can, consider supporting our …
AAM’s Statement on Ceased COVID-19 Relief Negotiations

By American Alliance of Museums

Arlington, VA – In response to the President’s announcement that further negotiations over a COVID-19 relief package would cease until after the election, Laura Lott, President and CEO of the American Alliance of Museums, released …
Earning Income from Education Programs during COVID-19

By Daryl Jorgenson and Kate Jackson

In this series of posts, EdCom’s Trends Committee is taking a deeper look at emerging phenomena identified in the 2020 edition of TrendsWatch from the Center for the Future of Museums. In this post, they turn their attention to the …
Navigating a Job Search in the COVID-19 Market

By Dana P. Hundley

The museum field, and cultural institutions in general, have undoubtedly been hit hard by COVID-19. As a result, many museum professionals are finding themselves job searching and considering career transitions at a time with seemingly …
Eye of the Storm: How Do Museums Prepare for Hurricanes during a Pandemic?

By Lori Foley and Cori Wegener

It’s a Thursday afternoon in July and the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR) is almost empty. Director Marta Mabel Pérez is in her office, leading a virtual hub of staff and other professionals through crisis management, reopening …
Children’s Museology and the COVID-19 Crisis

By Monica Eileen Patterson

While physical museums are facing an uncertain future, virtual museum visitorship is booming. The Louvre’s web traffic has increased tenfold to four hundred thousand visits a day, and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art reports an …
Essential Evaluators: Snapshot | Data Collection

By Rose Jones, Laureen Trainer, and Andréa Giron Mathern

Essential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. This is a time of uncertain and unknown expectations …
Why We’re Staying Closed

By Judy Gradwohl

Many museums are struggling with when, and whether, to open, reclose, and reopen. These enormously difficult decisions may determine whether the organization survives the current crisis. After experiencing the first two stages of this …
American Alliance of Museums Proposes Plan to Get Field Back to Work

By American Alliance of Museums

The American Alliance of Museums, in partnership with Americans for the Arts and more than 750 cultural organizations and creative workers, has proposed a 15-action national recovery strategy for the US government to get creative workers …