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PNC SmartHome: An Inspirational Exhibit of Extreme Energy Efficiency and Carbon Reduction

By David Beach

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2012 edition of Museum magazine. The term “natural history” often evokes a sense of the past, but increasingly The Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH) is showing the way …
Leadership At All Levels

By Elizabeth S. Pena

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2012 edition of Museum magazine. An excerpt from A Life in Museums: Managing Your Museum Career, edited by Greg Stevens and Wendy Luke, The AAM Press, April 2012. When we think about museum …
Social Butterfly

By Cecelia Walls

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2012 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Today there are more than 800 million active individual users of Facebook and 30,000 Facebook pages for nonprofits, with these …
Fighting for Philanthropy

By Sue Hoye

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2012 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Imagine a group of children settling in for a sleepover in a history museum. Clad in their pajamas, the kids are just about to …
An Apprenticeship In Seeing

By Maxwell L. Anderson

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2012 edition of the Museum magazine. An excerpt from The Quality Instinct “Please don’t get your hopes up. He’s a very difficult man.” My heart sank. Instead of …
Telling Tales: A Conversation with Andy Goodman

By John Strand

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2012 edition of the Museum magazine. As critical cogs in America’s educational infrastructure, museums tell the story of the country’s heritages-historic, cultural, …
Getting Personal: Making a Collection-Community Connection

By Joelle Seligson

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2012 edition of the Museum magazine. Everyone can relate to a dog. That was the philosophy underlying the National Postal Museum’s campaign on Owney the Postal Dog, the mangy mutt …
Back to School: Museum Studies Programs During Tough Times

By James Yasko

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2012 edition of the Museum magazine. When the economy took a nose dive in fall 2008, I heard more than one person reference Machiavelli’s 600-year-old maxim: “Never …
Group Effort: An excerpt from All Together Now: Museums and Online Collaborative Learning

By William B. Crow and Herminia Wei-Hsin Din

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2012 edition of the Museum magazine. Creating A Climate For Online Collaborative Learning Online collaborative learning can take many forms. It can range from a blended learning …
The Virtual Classroom: A Conversation with Sal Khan

By Elizabeth Merritt

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2012 edition of the Museum magazine. As part of AAM’s ongoing exploration of the role museums will play in the future of America education, the Center for the Future of …