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American Alliance of Museums Presses Legislators To Ensure Museum Stability: Legislative Priorities Include Charitable Giving, Federal Funding
For Immediate Release ARLINGTON, VA – February 26, 2019 – Hundreds of museum leaders from across the country today urged Senators and Congressional Representatives to increase funding for federal agencies that support museums and to pass … -
Latest Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey Shows Increases in African American Curators and Women in Leadership Roles
New York, NY, January 28, 2019—The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in partnership with the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), and Ithaka S+R announced today the results of its second … -
Dr. Tonya Matthews Joins American Alliance Of Museums As Director Of Inclusion
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 23, 2019 — ARLINGTON, VA – The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, today named Dr. Tonya Matthews as its interim director of … -
American Alliance of Museums to Launch National Museum Board Diversity and Inclusion Initiative
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Multi-year project backed by $4 million in grants from The Andrew W. Mellon, Alice L. Walton, and Ford Foundations ARLINGTON, VA – January 15, 2019 – The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the only organization … -
Statement from Alliance President & CEO Laura Lott on the Partial Federal Government Shutdown
In response to the partial federal government shutdown, Laura Lott, President and CEO of the American Alliance of Museums, said federally operated museums, as well as national parks, national monuments, national forests, national historic … -
AAM Names Beaulieu and Richardson New Accreditation Commissioners
AAM has appointed Rebekah Beaulieu and Evans Richardson IV as new Accreditation Commissioners, with terms that begin January 1, 2019 and end Decembe… -
American Alliance of Museums Announces One Newly Accredited Museum and 15 Reaccreditations
Accredited at the October 2018 meeting of the Alliance's Accreditation Commission, 16 museums have demonstrated they meet standards and best practices and represented themselves as educational entities that are appropriate stewards of the … -
American Alliance of Museums Empanels Education Task Force
The Alliance has empaneled a task force to examine whether educational philosophies should be articulated as one of the core documents that museums maintain to ensure professional … -
Nevada Museum of Art, Bartlett Design Garner Top Prize in Alliance 2018 Publications Design Competition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARLINGTON, VA – “Unsettled,” the exhibition catalog from the Nevada Museum of Art, has been honored with the best-in-show award in the 2018 Museum Publications Design Competition of the American Alliance of Museums … -
20 Museums Tapped for Initiative to Create Learning Opportunities For Older Adults
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Arlington, VA – Aroha Philanthropies, the American Alliance of Museums, and Lifetime Arts announced today that 20 museums and organizations have been tapped to participate in a new initiative, funded and managed by …
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