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Pursuing Learning through Intentional Practice

By Randi Korn
View of a woman standing in front of a garden scape smiling wearing horn rimmed glasses and a white jacket and blue and white scarf.
Most museum staff yearn to affect those who visit their museum; they want to create meaningful experiences that will be remembered long after people’s encounters. Stephen Weil believed that …

A Case Study—in Progress—of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Brand Refresh

By Linda Butler and Jennifer Sonderby

Attack of the 100-Year Old Startup

By Brendan Ciecko
A white male stands in front of a red cinderblock wall looking straight at the camera wearing dark rimmed glasses a suit and tie.

Killer Mike, the High Museum’s Newest Board Member, on How He Wants to Make Art More Accessible to the Working Class

By Henri Neuendorf, artnet News

What is our museum’s social impact?

By Kelly McKinley, Medium

Restructuring Nonprofit Organizations: Mergers, Acquisitions, Consolidations, Partnerships and Separations

By Elizabeth Varner

Internet and Cyberlaw Issues Impacting Cultural Organizations

By Elizabeth Varner

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Making SPACE: An innovative high school program creating artists and winning awards

By Lydia Ross and Ricardo Gamboa
Category: Education & Interpretation
This post originally appeared on the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) DNA blog on October 3, 2018, and is republished here with permission. Each year AAM’s Education Committee (EdCom) …

Museums are curating an era of social movements in real time

By Ivette Feliciano, PBS.org
Category: Curatorial Practice
Museums are curating an era of social movements i…

Museum Creates Program for Families Suffering from the Opioid Crisis

By Zachary Small, Sarah E. Bond, Hrag Vartanian, Jasmine Weber, Naomi Polonsky, Hyperallergic
Category: Influence of Museums
Approximately 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017 alone. For families hurt by addiction, the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire has created an unprecedented program that …