Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion

Leveling the Playing Field at Sugar Hill

By Elizabeth Merritt

I fell in love with the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling back in 2014, when I read that Broadway Housing Communities’ brief to architect David Adjaye for this affordable housing project included a preschool AND …
AAM’s New Code of Conduct Inspires Conversation About Gender

By Andrea Jones

Each year, the Alliance recruits 10-12 people to be Social Media Journalists – to tweet and share conference happenings for those who don’t attend or just want to follow along with all the fun. As one of those chosen for the role in …
Opening Session and Keynote Speaker Kevin Jennings

By Kevin Jennings

Kevin Jennings, president of the Tenement Museum and Former Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education, shares how everyone's story is worth telling and reminds us that we're only a generation removed from the widespread silencing of LG…
Keynote Speaker Ericka Huggins

By Ericka Huggins

Get inspired by keynote speaker Ericka Huggins -- educator, Black Panther Party member, and former politica…
How can museums support Native-led climate justice initiatives?

By Beka Economopoulos

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2018 edition of Museum magazine. “We humbly ask permission from all our relatives: our elders, our families, our children, the winged and the insects, the fourlegged, the swimmers and all …
Benchmarking Inclusivity

By Donna Sack and Susie Wilkening

As the Alliance’s designated futurist, I’m often asked by journalists to comment on how this or that museum practice has changed over time. I’m often embarrassed (and frustrated) to admit I don’t know. It’s hard to track trends in museum …
With Liberty and Justice for All!

By Laura Lott

One hundred and thirty-three years after the Statue of Liberty first arrived in New York harbor, to the day, my husband and I took our daughter to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island on Father’s Day. Our almost-six-year-old has been …
Designing an AI Voice for the Museum

By Elizabeth Merritt

This is the second of two posts exploring IRIS+, an AI chatbot at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In part one, Daniel Morena, founder and creative technologist at of 32Bits, described the program, how it operates, and how …
Grant Opportunity: Museums & Creative Aging

By Elizabeth Merritt

Aroha Philanthropies has just released a call for proposals to museums interested in participating in its new Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums initiative. The Alliance is collaborating with Aroha and Lifetime Arts to usher a museum cohort …
Difficult but Necessary

By Laura Lott

I am privileged to be part of many special museum events—openings, re-openings, milestone anniversaries and the like. Each is special—for the museum; for the hardworking boards, staffs, and volunteers; and for the proud local communities. …