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Why Diversify?

By Cecelia Walls

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2010 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Q: I’ve been reading AAM’s 2009 Museum Financial Information. Great data—thanks! But I’m not so sure about the advice you give in …
The Grande Race: Making The City a Museum Without Walls

By Christian G. Carron

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2010 edition of the Museum magazine. On a sunny summer afternoon, there are few people touring the galleries at the Grand Rapids Public Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich. Learning about …
Where History Meets High Tech

By Amy Rogers Nazarov

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2010 edition of the Museum magazine. Introducing the latest MCCA grantees When representatives of two cultures are able to compare notes on their art, their histories, the struggles they …
“Connecting With The Story”: A conversation with author JULIA ALVAREZ

By Rina Rapuano

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2010 edition of the Museum magazine. Julia Alvarez may have only lived in the Dominican Republic from the age of 3 months through 10 years, but being born in the U.S. didn’t help when …
“The Importance of Memory”: A Conversation with Amy Tan

By Susannah Cassedy O'Donnell

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2010 edition of the Museum magazine. Amy Tan first arrived on the literary scene in 1989 with the publication of The Joy Luck Club. In exploring the nuances and complexities of human …
A Clear View: The Case for Museum Transparency

By Maxwell L. Anderson

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2010 edition of the Museum magazine. Museums continue to operate largely as we always have, with minimal regulatory oversight of the kind routinely accorded institutions of higher …
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 …