The Future of Museum Ethics: Launching the Forecast
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
This week, the Center for the Future of Museums and the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University launch the Future of Museum Ethics forecast, a project to identify emerging …
Digesting the Future of Museum Ethics
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I’m suffering from a bad case of “be careful what you wish for.” The Forecasting the Future of Museum Ethics project that CFM has been running with the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton …
Ethics Smackdown: Against the Resolution
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This is the third installment in our report from the Ethics Smackdown at the Alliance annual meeting, debating whether museums should loosen the ethics restrictions governing the use of …
Direct Care of Collections: Ethics, Guidelines, and Recommendations
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the July-August 2016 issue of Museum magazine. First issued in 2016, the white paper was updated in 2019 to reflect the updated FASB accounting standard …
Law & Ethics Can We Believe In Change?
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2009 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Q: I am executive director of a small history museum. Our board of directors …
Ethical Everything: managing the moral marketplace
“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”—Douglas Adams Increasingly the press and our peers remind …
Let’s Be Proactive about Museum Ethics
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
We asked Sally Yerkovich, Director of the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University and the chair of AAM’s Task Force on the Direct Care of Collections, to write about current …
Law and Ethics: An Ounce of Prevention
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2009 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Q: I am the director of an art museum in a small liberal arts college. The …
What are Ethics? A Brief Essay in Plain English
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
This essay introduces Round Two of the Forecasting the Future of Museum Ethicsexercise. Follow this link, to vote on which of which of the issues identified in Round One will be most …
Museum Boards: Ethics, Transparency, and Public Scrutiny
This is a recorded session from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. This session addresses the recent controversies surrounding museum trustees who have been the target of …
The Third Rail of Museum Ethics: Selling Collections to Pay for…What?
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Is it ethical for a museum to use the money it gets from selling collections to fund general operations? How about using the proceeds from the sale for “preservation” (the term used by …
What Do Ethical Consumers Expect of Museums?
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
An open letter released today calls on natural history and science museums to “cut all ties with the fossil fuel industry and funders of climate change obfuscation.” The letter, signed by …