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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 …
First Steps for Engaging New Audiences

By Bob Harlow

In the Wallace Foundation report The Road to Results: Effective Practices for Building Arts Audiences, (2014, The Wallace Foundation), Bob Harlow identifies and examines nine practices of arts organizations that successfully expanded …
How Far Have We Come? Civil rights museums evolve and transform

By Jeff Levine

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2015 edition of the Museum magazine. Of necessity, museums that document the nation’s civil rights struggle must also confront the litany of moral wrongs committed against African …
A Voice For Museums

By American Alliance of Museums

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2015 edition of the Museum magazine. With preparations underway for a new Congress and for the seventh annual Museums Advocacy Day (Feb. 23–24), Alliance President Ford W. Bell …
Crunching the Numbers

By Elizabeth Merritt

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2015 edition of the Museum magazine. In the following article are some brief excerpts from the 2014 National Comparative Museum Salary Survey, released this past fall. Created to …
Looking Back: A reprise at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

By American Alliance of Museums

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2015 edition of the Museum magazine. WHILE CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUMS take the viewer on a journey from hate to hope, the experience at a new digital painting exhibit staged by the Bowdoin …
How Can My Small Museum Handle Core Documents Verification?

By Tamara Hemmerlein

The American Alliance of Museums Core Documents Verification is a review and recognition program that focuses on the five core indicators of a strong and healthy organization: Mission Statement Institutional Code of Ethics Strategic …
Museums for Social Justice

By David Fleming

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2014 issue of Museum magazine. Adapted from a Big Ideas presentation, May 20, 2014, at the AAM Annual Meeting in Seattle. In this spirit, the theme of the 2015 AAM Annual Meeting will be …