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Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion
Who Will Tell My Story?
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2018 issue of Museum magazine. Educate, Engage, Elevate! Museums on the Rise—that’s the theme of the 2018 Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo, …
Join #5WomenArtists
Ask someone to name five artists and responses will likely include names such as Warhol, Picasso, van Gogh, Monet, da Vinci—all male artists. Ask someone to name five women artists, and the …
A Role for Museums in the Urban Renaissance: Reviving Skills of Craftsmanship
One topic I’m researching now is how museums deploy their assets—tangible and intangible—to promote equity in their communities. In today’s guest post Erin Sheets and Russell Davidson tell …
7 Factors That Drive Museum Wages Down
Several years ago, a good friend of mine and I were talking about our careers, and he asked how mine was going. I said that I was pretty much doing my dream job, I only wished that I …
Envisioning the Accessible Future of Peer Review
One of my favorite parts of putting together the recent “future issue” of Museum was asking my colleagues at AAM to imagine how their work, and the programs they staff, such as …
Units of Measure: Key findings from Museum Board Leadership 2017: A National Report.
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2018 issue of Museum magazine. In the spring of 2017, the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) released the results of a national …
10 Easy Ways Museums Can Be More LGBTQ-friendly
This post originally appeared on the Center for the Future of Museums Future of Education blog in December 2016. Have you ever been bothered by something, found co-workers who were bothered …
Access and Inclusion Case Study: Connecting Students to the Museum Field
In a session at the 2017 AAM Annual Meeting in St. Louis, a look around the room revealed a small sea of mostly mid-career museum professionals with experience and interest in education and …
Taking a Stand: Prisons Today, The Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site Award Winner
The Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site’s Prisons Today: Questions in the Age of Mass Incarceration exhibition won first place in the 2017 Excellence in Exhibition award …
Museopunks Episode 23: The Gendered Museum
Did you know that several studies in recent years have shown that when women enter a specific field in large numbers, the pay for that field declines overall, even for the same jobs that …
Reflections on A Seat at the Table at NMAAHC
Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell is an education specialist with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. This essay is adapted from her presentation …
Workplace Culture – Face the Facts!
Shawn VanDerziel is the Chief Human Resources Officer at The Field Museum in Chicago. This is the second in a series we’ll be presenting that discusses the Field Museum’s staff culture and …