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Working Your Core: Core Documents, that is! webinar recording
The five core documents are the foundation of a well-run museum, shaping its values, operations, and long-term success. They’re not just paperwork—they’re a museum’s playbook for making …
Future Chat: Managing Digital Risk
Your museum has embraced the digital world. Digitized collections, an asset management system, ticketing, customer relations system, volunteer and event management, and other solutions to …
Future Chat: Diving into Museum Data
As the country rebounds from the COVID-19 pandemic, how are museums doing? Who is coming to museums and why, how does attendance compare to pre-pandemic norms? What are the barriers to …
Toward a More Human Museum: Trust and Well-Being for Staff and Visitors
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In the current political climate, the work museums are doing to become more human and empathic may be …
Fostering Resilience in Children through Virtual Mindfulness
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In the face of an epidemic of anxiety, depression, and physical disease, many museums have been exploring …
Disrupting the Traditional Narrative: Including Oral Histories in Museums
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Museums have been guilty of discounting oral histories as “non-academic” or “inappropriate” methods of …
Money Matters: Creating a Path to Financial Sustainability
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. As museums compete against a growing range of leisure and educational options, they must reevaluate their …
Research Insights from AAM’s Museum Board Leadership Survey
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. What is the state of museum governance today? Hear the results of AAM’s Museum Board Leadership survey, …
Curating Trauma and Violence: Preparing and Caring for Communities and Staff
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In this recorded session, museum professionals from various institutions – a museum focused on the Holocaust, a …
Confronting Colonialism: Intersections of Scientific and Cultural Knowledge
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Natural History museums play a unique and urgent role in helping document and understand the world’s …
Leveraging Permanent Collection Objects for Collaboration and Change
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Throughout the museum field, institutions have been grappling with how to address problematic objects in their …
60 Ideas in 60 Minutes: Small Museums are Thriving!
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In this fast-paced and dynamic session, four small museum professionals showcase how small museums – which face …
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In-District Advocacy: Advocating to State and Federal Lawmakers
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American Alliance of Museums
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The Gen Z Guide to Civic Season
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You may have heard of Civic Season, the annual civics-and-history learning sprint held between Juneteenth and the Fourth of July every summer. The program was created by, and is activated …
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Sharing Snippets from AAM 2025
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
It was lovely to see over 4,000 of you in Los Angeles last week! I hope those of you who did attend share what you learned through conversation, social media, blog posts, presentations to …