Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion

Re-Engaging the Past to Re-Envision the Future

By Redell R. Hearn

The Mississippi Museum of Art and Tougaloo College joined creative forces to spotlight civil rights issues, past and present. This article originally appeared in the January/February, 2021 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of …
Point of View: Playground for the 1%

By John Wetenhall

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. In an effort to provide the broadest possible access to this critical topic, we are making these articles free and …
A Liberatory Framework: Critical race theory can help museums commit to anti-racism and combat anti-blackness

By Porchia Moore

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. In an effort to provide the broadest possible access to this critical topic, we are making these articles free and …
Point of View: Movements, Moments, and Museums

By Melanie Adams, PhD, and Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell

How Black Lives Matter can liberate museums. This article originally appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. In an effort to provide the broadest possible access to this critical topic, …
From the President and CEO: Museums and Racial Equality

By Laura Lott

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. In an effort to provide the broadest possible access to this critical topic, we are making these articles free and …
A Watershed Moment: Lessons from #MuseumsRespondtoFerguson and MASS Action

By Adrianne Russell, Anniessa Antar, and Elisabeth Callihan

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. In an effort to provide the broadest possible access to this critical topic, we are making these articles free and …
An End-of-Year Message from Laura Lott, AAM President and CEO

By Laura Lott

Hello AAMers, I’m sending this video today to reflect with you on this historic year. It has tested us in ways few of us could have imagined. Probably like you, I have uttered a few four-letter words this year. And while it’s clear the …
Rebuilding Pathways: How DEAI and Creative Aging Intersect at the Speed Art Museum

By Toya Northington, in conversation with Marjorie Schwarzer

As museums work to become more diverse, equitable, accessible, and inclusive, one community is often left out of the discourse: people over the age of fifty-five. This may be because they already appear to be well-represented. After all, …
The State of the Museum Field in 2020, as Viewed by Students

By Kristin M. Szylvian

On a day in April 2020, Richard E. Jones—a recent St. John’s University graduate who grew up with a view of New York City’s famous “Museum Mile” from his Harlem neighborhood—looked down the street toward the Metropolitan Museum of Art. …
Why I Abandoned the Traditional Museum Education Model

By Annie Thomas-Bubel

Personal stories are how we, at Nemours Estate, connect our visitors with the duPont family who once lived in this grand place. So I’d like to share my personal story of building a museum education program from the ground up, to illustrate …