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First Steps for Engaging New Audiences
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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 … -
Sea Change: Innovation transforms the link between museums and water
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2014 issue of Museum magazine. A benefit of membership in AAM. “When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” – … -
Homecoming: Shedd Aquarium refocuses on its native Great Lakes
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2014 issue of Museum magazine. A benefit of membership in AAM. ON ONE FROSTY DAY in December 1929, the frozen shore of Lake Michigan buzzed with life. Thousands turned their collars … -
Something Old, Something New: Green investments pay off for the historic Toledo Museum of Art.
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2014 issue of Museum magazine. A benefit of membership in AAM. While most new museum projects and additions incorporate energy-efficient strategies as part of the design, it is …
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