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Fostering Resilience in Children through Virtual Mindfulness

By American Alliance of Museums

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In the face of an epidemic of anxiety, depression, and physical disease, many museums have been exploring mindfulness practices to support the health of their …
Disrupting the Traditional Narrative: Including Oral Histories in Museums

By American Alliance of Museums

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Museums have been guilty of discounting oral histories as “non-academic” or “inappropriate” methods of historical documentation – a trend that contributes to the …
Money Matters: Creating a Path to Financial Sustainability

By American Alliance of Museums

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. As museums compete against a growing range of leisure and educational options, they must reevaluate their approach to pricing to demonstrate value while …
Research Insights from AAM’s Museum Board Leadership Survey

By American Alliance of Museums

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. What is the state of museum governance today? Hear the results of AAM’s Museum Board Leadership survey, including critical benchmarking data on governance …
Curating Trauma and Violence: Preparing and Caring for Communities and Staff

By American Alliance of Museums

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In this recorded session, museum professionals from various institutions – a museum focused on the Holocaust, a museum telling stories related to terrorist …
Confronting Colonialism: Intersections of Scientific and Cultural Knowledge

By American Alliance of Museums

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Natural History museums play a unique and urgent role in helping document and understand the world’s plants and animals during the current biodiversity and …
Leveraging Permanent Collection Objects for Collaboration and Change

By American Alliance of Museums

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Throughout the museum field, institutions have been grappling with how to address problematic objects in their collection, taking various approaches from …
60 Ideas in 60 Minutes: Small Museums are Thriving!

By American Alliance of Museums

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In this fast-paced and dynamic session, four small museum professionals showcase how small museums – which face unique challenges but are also hubs of …
Future Chat: Navigating the Culture Wars

By American Alliance of Museums

Museums across the country are increasingly caught up in partisan skirmishes, called out for their exhibits, programming, or for taking (or not taking) a stand on current events. What kinds of pressure—protests, lawsuits, threats to …
Strategy, So what? Using the Strategist’s Toolkit to Help Museums Thrive

By American Alliance of Museums

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Strategic planning gets a bad rap. Hours of meetings. Hundreds of post-its. And at the end, all you get is a fancy document that collects dust on a shelf. So why …