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Rooted in Reform: Navigating Carceral Stories in Museum Spaces

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2024) Vol. 43 No. 2 and is reproduced with permission. If you don’t read the journal, become a member to receive your copy of the …

Leave Room to Grow: The Impact of Evolving Historic Events on a Temporary Exhibition

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2024) Vol. 43 No. 2 and is reproduced with permission. If you don’t read the journal, become a member to receive your copy of the …

Beyond the Mannequin: Indigenous Bodies, Presence, and Textiles in Two Exhibitions at the Museo Textil de Oaxaca

Who decides how a body is represented inside a museum? This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2024) Vol. 43 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. Museums, as …

Climate Solutions: How Audience Research Helped Us Support Visitors in Envisioning Alternate Climate Realities

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2024) Vol. 43 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. Solutions to climate change exist. We have the knowledge. We have the …

Exhibition journal Archive Pre-2016

These are all of the Exhibition journal issues published before 2016. 2015 Fall 2015: Creating an inclusive experience: exhibitions and universal design Spring 2015: The nimble and …

Fall 1999: Making Meaning in Exhibits

Fall 2004: International Exhibits

Spring 2007: The RFP issue

The Spring 2007 Exhibitionist is dedicated entirely to the RFP process. Accompanying this issue are several sample documents you ca…

Fall 2007: Name sessions at AAM 2007

Spring 2008: Enriching the visitor experience for kids and families

Fall 2008: The unexhibitable

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The 2024 Museum Store Gift Guide

Category: Alliance Blog
As cheerful as the holiday season can be, it can also be a dizzying blur of to-dos, chief among them the task of finding thoughtful, interesting gifts that will delight their recipients. …

Imaginative Learning in Museums, Part 1: A 2024 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Data Story

Category: Alliance Blog
This visual Data Story is based on findings from the 2024 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers, a national survey of American museum visitors from AAM and Wilkening Consulting. Every year, the …

In the Line of Duty: Supporting and Training Frontline Museum Staff

Category: Human Resources
The American Alliance of Museums offers the following information as guidance. Thank you to Dorothy Svgdik and Samantha Doolin for their review and critique of the content. The information …

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