Time for New Norms: Museums must address their systemic inequities if they want to be truly inclusive—and relevant—institutions.

Category: Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. In American history, the Civil Rights Movement is held up as a beacon of …

Shields Up! Safety, Security, and Inclusion for LGBTQ+ Programming

Category: On-Demand Programs
 This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and access – these core values are central to museum standards of excellence …

What We Learned

Diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion are essential, sustainable values for museums to pursue. These principles are not only bedrocks of ethical and morally courageous museum …

No Stone Left Unturned: How the Oakland Museum of California is practicing equity and inclusion.

Category: Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Over the past decade, the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) has begun …

Leading By Example, Not by Mandate

Category: Alliance Blog
Champion museums and nurture excellence in partnership with our members and allies. This is the Alliance’s mission statement and a call to action that is driving results across the museum …

Public Trust and Accountability Standards

Public trust is the principle that certain natural and cultural resources are preserved for public benefit. In essence, it means the public owns the collections, and they should be kept …

Ethics, Standards, and Professional Practices

Excellence across the museum field begins with the ethics and standards that the field sets for itself to promote accountability, provide a basis for good decision-making, and prove a …

10 Easy Ways Museums Can Be More LGBTQ-friendly

This post originally appeared on the Center for the Future of Museums Future of Education blog in December 2016. Have you ever been bothered by something, found co-workers who were bothered …

How Can My Small Museum Handle Core Documents Verification?

Category: Museum Magazine
The American Alliance of Museums Core Documents Verification is a review and recognition program that focuses on the five core indicators of a strong and healthy organization: Mission …

10 Easy Ways Museums Can Be More LGBTQ-friendly

Category: Alliance Blog
Have you ever been bothered by something, found co-workers who were bothered by the same thing, put your heads together, and made change happen?  That’s pretty much how in 2010 we got …

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