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Stirring The Melting Pot: A Challenge to Notions of Integration

By Gregory Rodriguez

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2010 edition of the Museum magazine. What does it mean to be an American? For many decades, few questioned that our identity centered on a common subscription to a certain set of accepted …
Brainstorm: Inside the Mind of the Museum Visitor

By Mary Ellen Flannery

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2010 edition of the Museum magazine. Hey, wait a second! Who’s driving the bus? Like a character out of Speed-that crazy 1990s movie with the speeding bus and the beautiful …
Are Museums Recession-Proof?

By Martha Morris

This article originallly appeared in the January/February 2010 edition of Museum magazine. For the past two decades, museums have enjoyed a building boom. Issues of Museum magazine have been graced for years with a variety of freshly …
A New Spin: Are DJs, rappers and bloggers ‘curators’?

By N. Elizabeth Schlatter

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2010 edition of Museum magazine. A November 2008 headline in The New York Times read as follows: “Ludacris as Curator of His Own Hip-Hop Museum.” The concert review …
Museums: A Snapshot

By Elizabeth Merritt

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2010 edition of Museum magazine. A Rundown from 2009 Museum Financial Information Anyone who studies museums in a serious way will quickly encounter a few hurdles. First, you …
The Migratory Museum

By Joelle Seligson

This article originally appeared in the November/December 2009 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. The Mount Horeb Mustard Museum is leaving Mount Horeb. After years of financial strain, founder Barry Levenson is packing …
The Upside to Cutting Down

By Joelle Seligson

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2009 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Thirty percent of staff eliminated. Endowments evaporated overnight. Opening hours shortened. Operating budgets …
The Mall Over the Museum

By Susie Wilkening

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2009 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. “We’ve outgrown museums,” the girl said. Behind her, heads nodded in agreement. Were these 13-year-olds trying to say …
Law and Ethics: An Ounce of Prevention

By Elizabeth Merritt

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2009 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Q: I am the director of an art museum in a small liberal arts college. The college is having financial problems and the new …
Ethical Considerations for Museum Closures

By Amy Rogers Nazarov

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2009 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. As the recession continues to roil global markets, erasing jobs and halving endowments, many museums and historic sites are …