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The Power of Data-Driven Member Research to Drive Growth & Build Resilience

By American Alliance of Museums

Members are foundational to museums’ financial and social success—yet the sector has lacked rigorous study of the complex web of pain points, priorities, and underlying needs that motivate individuals to join a membership program. In this …
Questions an Organization Should Ask When Transitioning a Volunteer Program

By American Alliance of Museums

Transitioning a volunteer program—whether it involves changes to roles, recruitment strategy, or supervision—impacts the entire organization. In this workshop, develop the framework necessary for these momentous adjustments. From …
Making History Accessible: Toolkit for Multisensory Interpretation

By American Alliance of Museums

In 2019, the Intrepid Museum and New York University Ability Project brought together staff of historic sites, disability advocates, and experts in historic preservation and museum accessibility to address how to remove barriers to …
Get it Together: A Regional Approach to Connect to Descendant Communities

By American Alliance of Museums

Museums that care for Native American cultural objects or educate the public on Native American histories must work with descendant communities. Outreach from multiple institutions, however, can overburden these communities. In this panel, …
Different Lenses for Addressing Our Planet Crisis

By American Alliance of Museums

It will take more than the media and science-based institutions to educate the population about the climate crisis and how individuals can take personal or collective action. This session will bring together representatives of a university …
Putting Social Science to Work in Climate Change Interpretation

By American Alliance of Museums

Public engagement efforts on climate change must start with the fundamental recognition that people have different psychological, cultural, and political reasons for acting—or not acting—to reduce carbon pollution. In this session, hear …
Leaning into Value: Measuring and Monetizing Visitor Experiences

By American Alliance of Museums

How do you demonstrate that your institution provides social value and community impact? This is a question that all museum boards, leadership, and staff contemplate, but supplying the data that policy makers expect can be challenging. …
Access Journey: From One-Off Events to Creating a Culture of Accessibility

By American Alliance of Museums

How do we ensure that our accessibility efforts are all-encompassing and more than a one-off event? Creating an institutionalized culture of accessibility might feel like an overwhelming task, but it is one that is necessary and rewarding …
Every Museum is a Community Museum Defining and Prioritizing Communities

By American Alliance of Museums

Before the field evaluates community impact, it must address an elephant in the room: the implicit (and sometimes explicit) binary between “visitors” and “community.” Is every visitor a member of a museum’s community? This panel will …
Measuring Museum Social Impact: Lessons and Resources from a National Study

By Michelle Mileham, Sabre Moore, and Jen Kindick

With IMLS funding, the Measurement of Museum Social Impact study has spent months working with museums across the US to validate a social impact instrument. Watch this recorded session from the 2023 AAM Annual Meeting to hear about the …