The Legal Implications of DEI Executive Orders on Museums
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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 …
Future Chat: Navigating the Culture Wars
Museums across the country are increasingly caught up in partisan skirmishes, called out for their exhibits, programming, or for taking (or not taking) a stand on current events. What kinds …
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Urgent: Act Now to Save IMLS
NOW is the time to speak up for museums! On March 14, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO), Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, directing further cuts to …
Ask Your Museum’s Supporters to Save IMLS
Engaging your museum’s supporters and the public in museum advocacy can be a critical way to share the impacts recent Executive Orders have had on the museum field and garner support for …
Demystifying Accreditation: Perspective from Peer Reviewers
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Alliance Blog
AAM accreditation comes with significant benefits, including national credibility, enhanced relationships with peers and supporters, and institutional sustainability. But what does the …