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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 …

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 …

10 Tips for First-Time Annual Meeting Attendees

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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Consensual Curation and Our Common Future

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Supporting Staff Well-being in a Partisan Time

Category: On-Demand Programs: Human Resources
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The Longevity Strategy Designing Sustainable Digital Content

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