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Downsizing Our Museum in the Face of a Pandemic

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

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

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

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

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 …

Report urges massive digitization of museum collections

The United States should launch an effort to create an all-encompassing database of the millions of stuffed, dried, and otherwise preserved plants, animals, and fossils in museums and other …

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

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

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

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. …

National Study Highlights That Visits to Science Centers Can Best Predict Youth and Adult Interest in Science

Phoenix, April 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arizona Science Center, along with The Franklin Institute and the California Science Center, released the results from their national research …

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

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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2024 Museum Board Leadership: A National Report

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Museum Board Leadership 2024: A National Report, conducted by AAM and Slover Linett at NORC with support from Northern Trust, serves as the second iteration of Museum Board Leadership 2017. …

Annual Report Template

Category: Governance & Support Organizations
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