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I began writing and speaking about the need for trauma-informed practices in museums several years ago, and while I haven’t seen any big changes in the time since, I have seen small shifts …
This is an excerpt from TrendsWatch: Museums as Community Infrastructure. The full report is available as a free PDF download. “What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and …
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to join the AAM team for two wellness sessions in the lead-up to May’s Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Given the meeting’s wellness-focused theme, …
Growing partisan tensions and increasing public tendencies to engage in hostility and rudeness are adding to the stress faced by museums’ frontline staff. How can museums protect …
African American students walking out of school to march for equal rights in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. Eight-year-old activist Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins climbing out of her wheelchair …
This directory from Latinx Therapists Network includes culturally grounded, Latinx mental health practitioners who believe in the human right and dignity of Latinx communities and Latinx …
The mission of the Brown Girl Self-Care Company is to affirm and uplift Black women as they do the important work of resting, healing, and living abundantly. According to the founder, Bre, …
Informed Immigrant offers these practical and useful guidelines on providing mental health services to immigrants impacted by DACA and COVID-19 which include a helpful table o…
The UK Museums Association compiled this resource to help managers and leaders in dealing with and managing bullying in the workplace and includes findings from an effort to research the …
The Natural History Museum in London, England has posted the full contents of its Museum Health and Safety Management Policy. It contains three parts. Part one outlines the museum’s pledge …
The National Park Service provides information on occupational health and safety hazards unique to museum work. This resource was collected from an organization in the nonprofit or museum …
The American Alliance of Museums offers the following guidance from Ann Fortescue, Executive Director, International Museum of Art & Science. It is adapted from a blog post and …
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 …
As museum staff, our workdays are filled with time-consuming tasks, our to-do lists constantly expanding with emails to write, memos to produce, projects to advance, and programs to put on. …
Since its founding in 1961, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) has championed the voices of American artists, openly sharing their creativity by providing the public with …
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