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Back For More: Attracting Repeat Visitors to Single-Focus Museums

By Daniel Grant

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2013 edition of Museum magazine. In 1955, the 68-year-old socialite and philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post bought a 36-room Georgian-style mansion on a 25-acre estate in the …
Democracy in 3D: Making Natural History Accessible to All

By Herbert Maschner

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2013 edition of Museum magazine. When the digital age transitioned into the 21st century, the coupling of incredible advancements in interactive technologies with the global exchange of …
The Concept of An Exhibition

By Tom Klobe

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2013 edition of Museum magazine. An excerpt from Exhibitions · Concept Planning and Design, The AAM Press, 2012. Museum objects are like words-they make sense only when they are organized …
No Place Like Home

By Dan Erickson

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Outsourcing exhibits rather than producing them in-house may seem like a money-saving strategy, but it may actually cost …
Innovation Lab for Museums: Third of a Four-part Series

By Joel Tan and Mei-ling Humphrey

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. Museum has been chronicling the progress of the Alliance’s Innovation Lab for Museums, a grant-funded program that enables participants to …
Sleuths in the City

By Mark Scheerer

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. A History Museum Just For Kids “This is awesome! You’ve gotta see this,” a fourth-grader squeals to her friend, pointing to …
Graceland Stands Apart

By Gary Vikan

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. Excerpt, From The Holy Land to Grace/and: Sacred People, Places and Things in Our Lives, The AAM Press, 2012. What makes Graceland unique among …
Down by the Riverside: A Conversation with Phil Hardberger

By Dewey Blanton

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. Phil Hardberger has devoted his life to serving his community, his state, and his country. An attorney, Hardberger was mayor of San Antonio from …
Innovation Lab: Second of A Four-Part Series

By Elizabeth Merritt

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2012 edition of Museum magazine. When the AAM Board founded the Center for the Future of Museums in 2008, one of their charges to the staff was to “[e]ncourage museum …
Work in Progress: Exhibiting Present-Day Evolution

By Winifred Kehl

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2012 edition of Museum magazine. Natural history museums are stuffed to the rafters with evidence of evolution; from dinosaur bones to clams, from mammal skins to jars of preserved …