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Read the Winners of This Year’s Excellence in Exhibition Label Writing Competition
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Exhibition labels are a primary tool museums use to communicate with visitors, so every word (and punctuation mark!) counts. To underscore this, AAM’s Curators Committee sponsors a …
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Museums Matter – Invite Congress to Visit Your Museum and Legislative Updates
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Advocacy Alert
Advocacy Alert – June 26, 2019 Invite Congress to Visit Your Museum and Legislative Updates Did you know that a visit to the museum can change how elected officials think about …
More Evidence for the Power of Creative Aging
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ad summa: Museums and Creative Aging
One of the most fruitful areas of the creative aging movement is the one that explores the arts and aging. The evidence for the positive effects of arts on wellbeing is mounting rapidly …
The Metropolitan Museum Shrouded a Mark Chagall Painting to Draw Attention to World Refugee Day
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Influence of Museums
The museum shrouded the painting to ask the question: "What would the Met's walls look like if there were no refugees?" Works by other famous artists including Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian, and …