Finding Community: Engaging Diverse Audiences in a Historic House
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
In April, 2007, a small but influential group of historic house professionals, association and foundation staff gathered at Kykuit, the historic Rockefeller Estate in Pocantico Hills, NY, …
Small Museums Modeling Excellence: Building Diverse Audiences
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Continuing to build on the AAM forecasting report Demographic Transformation and the Future of Museums, this week’s guest post is contributed by Elizabeth Stewart, director of the …
Do Innovation, and Diversity, Sometimes Look Like Failure?
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
The New York Times reports that the Brooklyn Museum is struggling to meet its attendance goals, using director Arnold Lehman’s strategy of building local audience rather than competing with …
American Alliance of Museums Honors Institutions With Diversity Awards
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Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 17, 2017 ARLINGTON, VA–The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, today named its …
Tapping into TransAtlantic Research on Diversity & Inequality
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
In a couple of weeks I’ll be in London, representing the Alliance at the “Diversity, (In)equality and Differences” workshop organized by the Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences …
Monday Musing: Fighting for Diversity and Against Unconscious Bias
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Two articles for my quick Monday thought:This depressing article from the NYTimes by a researcher who has been documenting how selection criteria in corporate America suppress diversity. He …
A Place at the Table: Developing diversity and next-generation leaders
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Alliance Blog
In 2018, the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) in Ohio named Asmaa Walton, a Detroit native with a master’s degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, its first KeyBank Museum Fellow. The …
Are Museums’ Young Patron Groups Meeting Calls for Diversity?
As demographics change across the United States, particularly in urban centers, and the baby boomers enter old age, the country’s …
Diversity, Equity To Become Required for Museum Accreditation, Standards
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Press Release
For Immediate Release Arlington, VA – The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, today announced a multi-year …
Attracting Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees
(This video runs 39:11) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Museum Network Expansion Visits Museum Stakeholder Identification Guiding Question How do we …
Recruiting Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees
(This video runs 50:34) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Museum Board Recruitment Matrix Museum Board Prospective Interviews Guiding Question Once we have …
Onboarding Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees
(This video runs 39:08) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Stages of Team Development Onboarding for New Trustees Guiding Question Once a new recruit has …