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Finding Community: Engaging Diverse Audiences in a Historic House
In April, 2007, a small but influential group of historic house professionals, association and foundation staff gathered at Kykuit, the historic Rockefeller Estate in Pocantico Hills, NY, …
No Place Like Home
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Outsourcing exhibits rather than producing them in-house may seem like a …
Innovation Lab for Museums: Third of a Four-part Series
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. Museum has been chronicling the progress of the Alliance’s Innovation Lab for Museums, a …
Sleuths in the City
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. A History Museum Just For Kids “This is awesome! You’ve gotta see this,” a …
Graceland Stands Apart
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. Excerpt, From The Holy Land to Grace/and: Sacred People, Places and Things in Our Lives, The …
Work in Progress: Exhibiting Present-Day Evolution
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2012 edition of Museum magazine. Natural history museums are stuffed to the rafters with evidence of evolution; from dinosaur bones …
Integrating Collaboration and Technology to Create a Crowdsourced Experience
I attended the Media & Technology Committee’s MUSE awards ceremony at the AAM annual meeting in Minneapolis Saint Paul a few weeks ago. The award-winning projects illustrate a number of …
FLUX | AAM – CFM
This week, guest blogger Peter Kimelman, founding director of the FLUX Foundation, previews his group’s participatory art project at the upcoming AAM annual meeting. One of PK’s recent …
Open Authority & the Future of Museum Ethics
Lori Byrd Phillips is the U.S. Cultural Partnerships Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedian in Residence at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. As a museum studies …
Steampunk, Crowdfunding and the Power of Social Media
Or, How One Exhibit Company Pulled A Brass Elephant Out Of A Hat This week’s guest post is by Peter Overstreet. Pete and his wife, Cat Taylor, founded the exhibit and event design company …
Hollywood Blockbusters and Flops
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2010 edition of Museum magazine. What Can They Teach Us About Exhibit Development? I know it’s hard to believe, but I voluntarily …