Call for Applications: Aroha Fellowship for Museums & Creative Aging

Last week the Alliance launched the search for our first senior fellow. With the generous support of Aroha Philanthropies, this individual will spend two years advancing the work of museums with respect to creative aging. One of the goals …

Designing Exhibits for Historic Structures: 6 Things to Keep in Mind

“They aren’t purpose-built white-box spaces,” says Ken Turino, comparing historic house museums with a typical, larger institution gallery. “The rooms aren’t square. And you have to be very sensitive to the structure and every surface.” …

10 Tips for First-Time Annual Meeting Attendees

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Digital Storytelling coming to a museum near you: 3 reasons to use Lume

Gretchen Halverson is the Media and Technology Assistant at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The reinstallation of the African galleries at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) in 2013 involved the drastic reduction in the number of …

Goldilocks data: Benefiting from the data that’s “just right” might be easier—and harder—than you think.

  There’s big data, there’s your own organization’s internal data (aka hyper-local data), and, increasingly, there’s Goldilocks data—the “just right” blend of timely information, relevant context, and affordability. All three types can …

Lorem Ipsum: 5 Keys to Speaking the Same Language as Your Project Team

My financial planner talks at lightning speed, using terms like “asset class diversification,” “large-cap funds,” and “variable annuity.” Embarrassingly, I don’t know what any of it means, and it’s overwhelming. I simply want him to …

The Elephant in the Room

In the January 2018 special issue of Curator: The Museum Journal, several authors explore the issue of ivory and what it means to museums collections today. Here’s a review from the Editor John Fraser and the Guest Editors for the Special …

Sharing Outcomes from “Don’t Raid the Cookie Jar” – Opening remarks by Laura Lott

This post is adapted from opening remarks made by Alliance CEO Laura Lott at “Don’t Raid the Cookie Jar: Creating Early Interventions to Prevent Deaccessioning Crises,” a convening held December 14-15, 2017 in Cambridge, …

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