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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 …
Alt Funding

By Elizabeth Merritt

“Will museum collections stay ‘inside the walls’ while fundraising moves to mobile phones, or is there some way that creative museum folks can move both their collections and their communities of supporters onto mobile platforms?” Lucy …
A New Educational Era

By Elizabeth Merritt

As formal learning methods are cast in doubt, the learning landscape is reinvented. We see signs that the U.S. is nearing the end of an era in formal learning characterized by teachers, physical classrooms, age-cohorts and a core …
Do We Need a Social Media Policy?

By Matthew MacArthur

This article originally appeared in the November/December 2010 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. It’s a good idea. Social media policies fall into two main categories: those that govern the use of social media by …
Saving Collections and the Planet

By Sarah Sutton Brophy and Elizabeth Wylie

This article originally appeared in the November/December 2009 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. How can museums mitigate the effects of climate change on our planet and on humanity? We asked museum professionals and …
A Code of Ethics for Curators

By Cecelia Walls

Originally conceived of in the early 1980s and last revised in 2009 by the former Curators Committee of the AAM, this set of fundamental principles describes core beliefs and critical responsibilities that define curatorial work and …
Suggested Practices for Museum Security

By American Alliance of Museums

Physical protection is fundamental for safeguarding museum collections. The processes outlined in the Suggested Practices for Museum Security aim to guide how museums safeguard objects or items from physical threats such as theft, damage, …