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On-Demand Programs: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion
AAM’s DEAI programs are a great first step to learning about diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion. Programs cover topics such as trans allyship, making art accessible, and responding to visitors with neurodivergent abilities.
On-demand programs are free to Individual, Ally, Industry, Tier 2, and Tier 3 Members. Be sure to log in to your membership account to access these programs.
Retaining Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Board Members
(This video runs 56:05) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Facing Change: Building Board Diversity—Retention (Slide Deck) Intent vs. Impact Museum Board …
Supporting Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees
(This video runs 41:50) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Intercultural Development Inventory Guidance for IDI Pairs (Activity) Boarding, Building, …
Recruiting Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees
(This video runs 50:34) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Museum Board Recruitment Matrix Museum Board Prospective Interviews Guiding Question Once we have …
Onboarding Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees
(This video runs 39:08) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Stages of Team Development Onboarding for New Trustees Guiding Question Once a new recruit has …
Attracting Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees
(This video runs 39:11) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Museum Network Expansion Visits Museum Stakeholder Identification Guiding Question How do we …
Inclusive Decision-Making for Museums
What does inclusive decision-making look like for museums? Does it mean that everything needs to be decided by consensus? (Hint: no.) And how do you hold people accountable? If you are …
The 3 Cs of Inclusive Communications for Museums
Employee expectations of leadership and organizational communications has changed significantly in the past few years. What does it take to communicate effectively with staff, particularly …
A DEAI Change Management Roadmap for Museums
Are you a museum leader who’s feeling lost and overwhelmed by DEAI? Wish someone would draw you a map? Brevity & Wit’s Senior Consultant Jakob Wolf-Barnett has! In this …
The Uses of Discomfort LGBTQ Collections Their Repositories and Their Legacies
People left out of traditional cultural narratives are forced to become the custodians of their own histories. For queer institutions, this means collecting stigmatized materials that other …
Museum Accessibility Helping Patrons Who Are Blind to See Your Exhibitions
Audio description (AD), a relatively inexpensive and readily available technology, broadens the museum experience for all people and particularly for patrons who cannot see or have low …
Is That Hung White? Revisiting Issues of Race and Inclusion in Exhibitions
This is a recorded session from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. In 2019, we got real and vulnerable about the consequences stemming from the lack of diversity and …
Lessons in Equity from Culturally‐specific Museums
This is a recorded session from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. Many culturally‐specific museums are committed to providing space, a consistent platform, and an …
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The American Alliance of Museums offers the following information from Violet Rose Arma, Curatorial Assistant & Administrative Support, University of Arizona Museum of Art. The …
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There have been a lot of changes in how people live their lives over the past five years, largely (but not exclusively) due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While some of these shifts may benefit …
November Advocacy Updates – Speaking up for Museums and Museums Advocacy Day
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Advocacy Alert – November 17, 2023 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: FY 2024 Funding for Museums: A Critical Time to Contact Congress in Support of OMS Registration Now Open: Museums …