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What It Means for ICA Philadelphia to Become the First WAGE-Certified Museum—and Why Other Institutions Should Care
Thanks to the ongoing wildfire of news about deaccessioning and museum admission policies, the art world has spent the opening months of 2018 engaged in a lively debate about how and where …
What’s the Best Path to a Top Museum Job? We Analyzed the Training of 100 Curators to Find Out
These days, it feels like you can't swing a canvas tote without hitting a newly credentialed curator. As art institutions expand and biennials proliferate, the population of curators has …
Museopunks Episode 25: The Next Chapter
As former Museopunk Jeffrey Inscho leaves the museum world, we take a moment reflect on the factors that influence a decision to leave or join the museum profession. We also examine what …
The Question of Gender: The “Unseen” Problem in Museum Workplaces
Joan Baldwin is Curator of Special Collections at The Hotchkiss School. Why is it important? Because for too long women–and more recently those openly identifying as women–have experienced …
Sometimes to find the future, you have to learn from our past…
ELLA’S SONG “We who believe in freedom cannot rest We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes Until the killing of black men, black mothers’ sons Is as important as the killing of …
Labor 3.0: new jobs, or a jobless future?
“The issue is jobs. You can’t get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket, and feeling like somebody.”—Studs Terkel In the last two centuries, labor pivoted from the farm …
Labor 3.0: New Jobs or a Jobless Future?
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2016 issue of the Museum magazine. This article is an excerpt from one chapter of TrendsWatch 2016, the Alliance’s annual deep dive into …
The Museum Sacrifice Measure
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2016 issue of the Museum magazine. This article is adapted from a series of essays that first appeared on the Center for the Future …
How Can We Create an Excellent Volunteer Program?
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2013 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Museum volunteers are critical resources in supporting visitor services, …