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Turning Museums Inside Out

By Winifred Kehl

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2015 issue of Museum magazine. Opening collections, engaging audiences On a corner near the north entrance of the University of Washington in Seattle, set back from the road and …
Museums and ADA@25

By Greg Stevens

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2015 edition of Museum magazine. A look back July 2015 marked the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a federal law intended to guarantee equal access for …
Excellence On A Small Scale

By Ann Fortescue

What does excellence at a small museum look like? My experience moving from a large history museum, with a full-time staff of 77 and an annual budget of $9.3 million, to a small art museum with a full-time staff of three and an annual …
Exploding the Four Walls: Museums Face the Prospects and Perils of Digital Learning

By Jeff Levine

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2015 edition of Museum magazine. On May 30, 1899, a struggling young inventor wrote the Smithsonian Institution asking for help: “I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I …
Nine Effective Strategies of Audience Building

By Lucas Held, Anne Bergeron and Beth Tuttle

Lucas Held, Anne Bergeron and Beth Tuttle summarize The Wallace Foundation report, The Road to Results: Effective Practices for Building Arts Audiences, by Bob Harlow (2014, The Wallace Foundation), and Magnetic: The Art and Science of …
Beyond the Label: Strategies for effective interactive media

By American Alliance of Museums

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2015 edition of Museum magazine. Creating digital interactive experiences in museums can be costly and time-consuming. Given the financial and human resources required to create …
Food Forward: Eat and drink trends in museums

By Marika Barranco

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2015 edition of the Museum magazine. Museums today are leveraging eating, drinking and tasting in new ways for visitors. Institutions striving to deliver multisensory experiences can find no …
Beyond Four Walls: A conversation with Peter Kim about creating a museum of food and community

By Elizabeth Merritt

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2015 edition of the Museum magazine. Good projects never really end—they flow into the future with all sorts of serendipitous consequences. A lovely ripple effect of the Center for the …
Why Cities, Museums, and Soft Power

By Gail Dexter Lord

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2015 edition of Museum magazine. An adapted excerpt from Cities, Museums and Soft Power by Gail Dexter Lord and Ngaire Blankenberg, available from The AAM Press in late April. Please go …
The “Open” Economy: Filling The Data Pipeline

By Elizabeth Merritt

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2015 edition of Museum magazine. A sample of TrendsWatch 2015. “‘Open’ is already on track to supplant ‘participatory’ as buzzword of the year, with good reason. The proliferation of …