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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 …
CARE-apy: Belonging in Cultural Institutions

By American Alliance of Museums

Approaches, Findings & Future Directions for the Field What does belonging look like in cultural institutions? We’ll share how two projects worked to understand belonging – across a diversity of institutions and visitor perspectives. …
Retaining Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Board Members

By American Alliance of Museums

(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 Annual Self-Evaluation Guiding Question As you begin …
Supporting Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees

By American Alliance of Museums

(This video runs 41:50) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Intercultural Development Inventory Guidance for IDI Pairs (Activity) Boarding, Building, Belonging (Slide Deck) Guiding Question How do we keep …
Recruiting Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees

By American Alliance of Museums

(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 reached out to potential new board members and …
Onboarding Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees

By American Alliance of Museums

(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 agreed to join the board, how can we make the …
Attracting Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees

By American Alliance of Museums

(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 attract a racially and ethnically diverse range of …