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Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion
From the President and CEO: Equity and Excellence
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2022 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Like society at large, the museum field is at a pivotal moment of …
Meeting the Moment
With its forthcoming report, Excellence in DEAI, AAM seeks to help museums achieve excellence in diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion. This article originally appeared in the …
On the Ground: How Visitor Experience Teams Are Teaching Front-Line Staff to Be DEAI Advocates
In the museum experience world, making visitors feel welcome is serious business. Our goal is to exceed guests’ standards for positive experiences, and nothing undermines that goal like a …
The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2021
Though 2021 was a slightly more normal year than 2020, with mostly open museums gradually regaining visitors, the pandemic still loomed large and colored most conversations. On the Alliance …
The ICA San Francisco: a new type of museum
Blooloop speaks to Alison Gass, the director of a the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, a soon-opening non-collecting contemporary art museum. Gass shares how she and her staff …
After MAP, KidsPlay Children’s Museum Is Ready to Build Community Bridges
Through the Museum Assessment Program, museums gain perspective on how to improve core areas of their operations, with a combination of guided self-reflection and close consultation with an …
Is That Hung White? Revisiting Issues of Race and Inclusion in Exhibitions
This is a recorded session from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. In 2019, we got real and vulnerable about the consequences stemming from the lack of diversity and …
How Can Education Programs Help Bridge the Digital Divide?
In this series of posts, EdCom’s Trends Committee is taking a deeper look at emerging phenomena identified in the 2021 edition of TrendsWatch from the Center for the Future of Museums. In …
Lessons in Equity from Culturally‐specific Museums
This is a recorded session from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. Many culturally‐specific museums are committed to providing space, a consistent platform, and an …
Are Museums’ Young Patron Groups Meeting Calls for Diversity?
“If we want to create situations and circumstances that more reflect the communities we live in, we have to have better communication and a better understanding of what the community …
How Philadelphia Cultural Institutions Embraced Collaboration to Address Opportunity Gaps
If there is a positive outcome of the pandemic’s impact on cultural institutions, it may be the willingness to ideate and take different approaches to our work to ensure that no one is …
Whose Writing Is on the Wall at the Museum? It Could Be Yours.
“This was a way of inviting the public inside to make them not just passive recipients of what’s on the wall, but actual participants.” –Wendy Nalani E. Ikemoto, Curator, …