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Ethics Forecast Round 3 & the Future of Museum Standards

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
This week we launch Round 3 of Forecasting the Future of Museum Ethics. As with previous rounds, the public is invited to weigh in at the same time (on a parallel track) as our recruited …

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 …

Statement on the Deaccessioning by the Delaware Art Museum and the Action taken by the AAM Accreditation Commission

Category: Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2014 Washington, D.C.—Accreditation conferred by the American Alliance of Museums designates a museum’s credibility to donors, funders and the public. …

Core Documents

The following five documents have been designated as core because they are fundamental for professional museum operations and embody core museum values and practices. They codify and guide …

Retrenchment or Downsizing

In challenging economic times museums often experience a dramatic loss of revenue from multiple sources of income, including:  admissions, store sales, programs, special events, endowments, …

Essential Evaluators: The Silver Lining

Category: Alliance Blog
Essential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. …

Accreditation and Excellence in DEAI

The findings and recommendations in Excellence In DEAI–a report from AAM’s Facing Change: Advancing Museum Board Diversity & Inclusion initiative–will directly impact the Accreditation …

Governance and Support Organizations Resources

Standards The Alliance shares standards on Leadership and Organizational Structure and Public Trust and Accountability. Accountability and Ethics This section addresses codes of ethics, …

AAM’s Strategic Framework: A Progress Report

Category: Alliance Blog
Whether you’re new to the museum field or have been around for decades, you’ve probably noticed that the watchword of this moment is “change.” Our museums, which have conservation in their …

Statement on La Salle University Proposal to Deaccession Works of Art for Non-museum Investments

Category: Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 5, 2018 ARLINGTON, VA ─ The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), an organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, and the Association of …

Closing the GAAP on Direct Care

Category: Alliance Blog
As lawyers with backgrounds in horticulture (Lori) and material culture studies (Sarah), we never thought we would be passionate about an accounting rule. Yet here we are. In 2015 we wrote …

Core Documents Verification

Core Documents Verification is a document review and recognition program that revolves around the evaluation of five core documents against a set of required elements. It is not a …

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