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How to Build a Membership Program
This article originally appeared in the November/December 2013 edition of Museum magazine. Whether you’re working to reshape an existing membership program, starting a new one or breaking the traditional business model to invent … -
Museums And Race
This article originally appeared in the November/December 2013 edition of Museum magazine. It has been more than two decades since artist Fred Wilson “mined” the Maryland Historical Society. Digging through the attic and … -
Join The Club: Museums develop new membership models
This article originally appeared in the November/December 2013 edition of Museum magazine. For most museum visitors, traditional membership offerings work like this: You give more, you get more. There are basic memberships for individuals … -
Babes in Arms: The Toledo Museum of Art reaches out to the very youngest visitors.
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. Museums are often not considered the most baby-friendly places. With look-but-don’t-touch rules and sophisticated works of art, why would … -
Institutional Evolution: How Monticello faced and interpreted a legacy of slavery
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. A statue of Thomas Jefferson stands before a curved wall. A sculpture of the nation’s third president certainly isn’t unusual. … -
Magnetism and the Art of Engagement
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. An excerpt from Magnetic The Art and Science of Engagement, The AAM Press, 2013. In the AAM book Magnetic: The Art and Science of … -
Making Mysteries
This article originally appeared in the 2013 September/October 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. Don Wildman, host of the hugely popular Travel Channel series, Mysteries at the Museum, came to the Alliance Annual Meeting & Museum … -
A Clear View: The Wellin Museum of Art creates a new model for the university museum
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. On a recent spring day on the campus of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art was a hive of activity, … -
All In The Family: It’s win-win when museums engage homeschoolers.
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2013 edition of Museum magazine. It’s 9:30 on a Tuesday morning, and already the museum shop of 19th-century author Washington Irving’s Sunnyside, part of a network of house … -
Unfinished Business
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. An adult diaper, a pill box, a plain spiral notebook, a yellow sponge, a mess of bank documents, a photo album, a broom. Each of these items rests in a …
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