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International Cultural Heritage Loans: Seizure and Jurisdiction

By Elizabeth Varner

*Please note that I am not your attorney, I am not giving legal advice, and there is no attorney-client relationship. All legal questions and conduct should be directed to your legal counsel. This article is not intended to be a …
Guide for Board Members

By Paula Cozzi Goedert

Serving on the Board of Directors of a non-profit organization is a significant commitment. It entails important responsibilities. Some of these responsibilities are imposed by state law; others are the result of years of court decisions …
Achieving Greatness: The Value of Association

By Dan Yaeger

Association leaders and corporate executives have long recognized that great lessons—lessons in leadership, team building, handling adversity and managing success—can be learned from their peers in the world of sports. This explains why …
The LMN Roving Reporter

By Christine Jeffers

You never know where Executive Director Christine Jeffers will pop up and seek the answers to the most pressing questions for museum leaders today. Keep an eye out, you might be next! I recently asked Executive Director Karen Kienzle of …
The New Super Circular for Federal Awards

By Elizabeth Varner

What is the Super Circular? The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in its efforts to deliver on the promise of a 21st-Century government that is more efficient, effective and transparent, has streamlined the OMB Circulars on …
Legal Issues in Museums

By Elizabeth Varner

*Please note that I am not your attorney, I am not giving legal advice, and there is no attorney-client relationship. This article is far too short to give an overview of legal issues in museums. Rather this article seeks to raise …
Accreditation: Streamlined, Green and a Great Management Tool

By Bonnie Styles

If your Museum is not accredited or is about due for reaccreditation, please take a look at the new, streamlined process. If you are not accredited, the new Core Documents Verification program must be completed first and will prepare you …
Suggested Practices for Collections Space Security

By American Alliance of Museums

The Suggested Practices for Collections Space Security helps guide museums towards the minimum procedural and physical security requirements for collections areas. The Suggested Practices are the minimum necessary to protect objects in the …
Innovation Lab for Museums

By Elizabeth Merritt

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2012 edition of the Museum magazine. First of a four-part series In 2011, AAM launched Innovation Lab for Museums, a grant-funded program enabling participants to incubate organizational …
Creative Aging

By Elizabeth Merritt

An aging population presents museums with both challenges (of retention and access) and opportunities (for enhancing visitors’ health, well-being and lifelong learning). Thanks to the Baby Boom, at some point in 2012, the population of …