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Advancing DEAI in a Polarized World

Category: Alliance Blog
Recently, we hosted a webinar with museum leaders on values-based communications for diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion (DEAI). While all attendees were eager to commit fully …

Museum Boards: Ethics, Transparency, and Public Scrutiny

Category: On-Demand Programs: Governance and Leadership
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 …

CAMPing Out: Making Museums More LGBTQ-friendly with Chicagoland Alliance of Museums with PRIDE

Category: Alliance Blog
Part 1: Katie Slivovsky, Exhibit Development Director, LGBTQ Access & Inclusion Chair, Chicago Children’s Museum Something wonderful is brewing in Chicago—and I don’t mean craft beer. …

Abstract Art, Concrete Goals

Category: Museum Magazine
The Des Moines Art Center diversified its audience—and educated its staff—with an exhibition on queer abstraction that transformed the frame of reference for its cause. This article …

The White Supremacy Elephant in the Room

Category: Museum Magazine
These dual crises of COVID-19 and the national racial justice reckoning have drawn the curtain back on a field rife with systemic inequities. While many within the field have been pushing …

Introducing Alliance Labs

Category: Alliance Blog

Beyond Neutrality

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
In Season 2 Episode 2 of the Museum People podcast, New England Museums Association director Dan Yaeger argues that all museums should be social activists, describing the oft-voiced museum …

The Partisan Divide

Category: Museum Magazine
How can museums build bridges and foster tolerance to strengthen…

Staffing

Throughout the roundtables, participants returned to a topic that affected each of them in different, but equally important, ways: ensuring that museum decision-makers allocate appropriate …

Refreshing the Blog Roll

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Guzel and I took some time this week to review and refresh the CFM Blog roll (see right-hand column). These blogs are some of my “go to” sources each week for news and thoughtful …

Rise and Shine: Early Morning Programs for People With Autism

Category: Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2016 issue of Museum magazine. For people with autism and other sensory processing disorders (SPDs), visiting museums and other …

The Ever Evolving American Identity: a New Mission at The Tenement Museum

Category: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion
What should a museum do when its subject matter becomes one of the most contested political issues of the day? This is the question I was quickly confronted with upon assuming leadership of …

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