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Measuring the Social Impact of Museums: Call for Study Sites

By Michelle A. Mileham
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At this pivotal time in history, advocating for museums, their staff, and their collections is more important than ever. To do that successfully, though, we need to be able to demonstrate …

Museum specimens could help fight the next pandemic – why preserving collections is crucial to future scientific discoveries

By Jocelyn P. Colella, Bryan McLean, The Conversation

Essential Evaluators: What’s in Your Soup?

By Rose Jones, Laureen Trainer, and Andréa Giron Mathern

6 Data-Tested Approaches to Building New Audiences

By Joseph O'Neill

What Can Data Teach Us About Museum Collections?

By Diana Greenwald
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Curiosity About History is Growing Across Generations, a New Survey Finds

By Norman Burns
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Transforming Data into Stories with the Annual Survey of Museum-Goers

By Lindy Hoyer
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Forming a Cultural Alliance through the Annual Survey of Museum-Goers

By Megan Wood & Cindy Foley

Financial Sustainability Is Everyone’s Responsibility

By Laura Lott

Perceptions Matter – How Welcoming Are Cultural Organizations? (DATA)

By Colleen Dilenschneider, Colleen Dilenschneider

Museums and AI: Is There a Ghost in the Machine?

By Seema Rao
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Pinning Art: The Data and Stories behind Pinterest Traffic to the Online Collection

By Elena Villaespesa, Digital Analyst; and Jennie Choi, General Manager of Collection Information, Digital Department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum
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AAM Welcomes Five New Board Members

By American Alliance of Museums
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For Immediate Release ARLINGTON, VA – The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, today announced that five leading …

Meet Patrice, the Spy Museum robot who is opening a secret world to hospitalized kids

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Category: COVID-19

Patrice is a small, sleek robot that is opening up the International Spy Museum to hospitalized children and young adults who can’t physically get to the building. This has proved to be …

Pivoting to Virtual Field Trips and Education Programs: Advice from The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum

By Mary Pat Higgins
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Category: Education & Interpretation
At The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, our mission is to teach history in order to impact behaviors today. With students in particular, we want them to encounter the history of …

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