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Downsizing Our Museum in the Face of a Pandemic

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By Elizabeth Merritt
According to the Alliance’s first COVID snapshot of museum operations, conducted this past summer, one-third of US museums expected to lose over 40 percent of their annual operating income …

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s #MuseumFromHome Strategy: Funny TikToks

By Joseph O'Neill
Ever since the rash of closures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, museums have been working behind the scenes to set strategies for engaging the public through remote …

Making a Museum in the Age of 3D Digital Models

By Michael D. Cherney and Adam N. Rountrey
In 2005, not long after the advent of tabletop 3D printing technology, the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology (UMMP; a research institution) used this approach to generate …

Science Gone Viral: An interactive comic engrosses readers in educational material

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By Geralyn Abinader
What’s more fun than reading comics? And what if a comic could not only model science inquiry processes, but also offer readers the opportunity to jump in and solve a mystery along with the …

How Science Museum of Minnesota Put Its Collections and Research on the MAP

By Charlie Iverson
The timing was right for Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) to participate in the Collections Stewardship Museum Assessment Program (MAP) program in 2018. Since our last MAP, in 1985, we had …

Outside the Collection Box: Connecting community with collections via augmented reality

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By M. Anne Basham
Immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), and cross reality (XR) are quickly gaining momentum as a mass media tool deployable in all …

Seeding Vitality Arts with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

By Meg Nicoll
This is the third in a series of posts publicizing Aroha Philanthropy’s call for proposals for Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums, funding the development and implementation of high quality, …

Seeding Vitality Arts at the Newark Museum

By Sonnet Takahisa
The Alliance is collaborating with Aroha Philanthropies and Lifetime Arts to support a cohort of 15 to 17 museums in a program to create instructional arts workshop series for older adults. …

Everybody DIY: Why and how the Arizona Science Center created its own makespace.

By RaeAnn Fox
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2018 edition of Museum magazine. In the science center world, some have debated the relevance and value of makerspaces. They question …

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June Advocacy Alert: Invite Congress, Policy Updates, and More

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By American Alliance of Museums
Advocacy Alert – June 13, 2025 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Invite Congress: Show Congress Firsthand the Value of Your Museum Members of Congress are in their home districts the …

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