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New Ideas and Knowledge at #AAM2019
Watch this video to see how attending the AAM Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo helps spark new ideas and build knowledge you can apply back home. We hope you will join us May 19–22 for the 2019 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo in New … -
Build Lifelong Friendships at #AAM2019
Watch this video to see how attending the AAM Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo helps you connect with others in the field and build lifelong friendships. We hope you will join us May 19–22 for the 2019 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo in … -
Creating Conversation, Not Controversy
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of membership with the Alliance. Click here to learn more about membership! Using narrative nonfiction writing as the springboard, five museums … -
Museums are Better Because of AAM
Museum professionals from across the globe share personal stories about how AAM plays a vital role in their careers and for their institutions. Transcript Laura Lott: The mission of the American Alliance of Museums is to champion museums … -
AAM 2019 Slate of Candidates for Board of Directors
AAM’s Board of Directors has nominated seven distinguished professionals from the museum field and beyond as candidates to serve on the Board with terms that begin in May 2019. Four are current Board members and three would be newcomers to … -
Museopunks Episode 32: Changing the Canon
Museum collections in established institutions come with long histories. So how do you change a museum’s canon? In this episode, we speak with Christopher Bedford, Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of The Baltimore Museum of Art, about the … -
What You Gain by Attending the Annual Meeting as a Scholar: An interview with Jeanine Pollard
We recently had a chat with Jeanine Pollard, Research & Project Manager at the Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Art, who was awarded an AAM scholarship to attend the 2018 Annual Meeting. Here she talks … -
What You Gain by Attending the Annual Meeting as a Scholar: An interview with James Burns
We recently had a chat with James Burns, Executive Director of the Arizona Historical Society, who was awarded an AAM scholarship all the way back in 1997. Here he talks about how that first trip to the AAM Annual Meeting helped jumpstart … -
Museopunks Episode 31: Are Museums “Safe Spaces for Unsafe Ideas?”
Since the mid-1990s, it has been received wisdom that museums are, or should be, “safe spaces for unsafe ideas.” But is this true? Are museum safe spaces? And do they really deal in unsafe ideas? In this episode, Elaine Heumann Gurian, who … -
Wild Times: In which social service nonprofits save the day.
Introduction to This Scenario A wild card scenario explores the kind of low-probability, high-impact event that can disrupt the best-laid plans. Though you shouldn’t obsess about these possibilities, including a few wild cards in your …
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