Questioning Assumptions: The Ideal Employee:Volunteer Ratio
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Today’s thought experiment: what if, in the future, museums asked not “how many volunteers do we need” but rather “how can we structure our operations to engage as many volunteers as …
Effective Exhibitions Should Provoke!
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Exhibition Journal
Effective exhibitions disrupt the notion that history remains locked in the past. Done right, an exhibition can make history a practical tool for justice by recovering silenced narratives …
Expanding Public Value
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Museum Magazine
As you build bridges with communities, consider using dig…
Measuring Museum Social Impact: Lessons and Resources from a National Study
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Social Impact
With IMLS funding, the Measurement of Museum Social Impact study has spent months working with museums across the US to validate a social impact instrument. Watch this recorded session from …
Soundtrack for an Equitable Conference
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Alliance Blog
Cradled in soulful New Orleans, the 2019 American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting offered a variety of new sights and sounds in one of the most culturally diverse cities in the United …
A Growing Backlash to DEI
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Do you remember seeing this picture attempting to illustrate the difference between equality and equity? Now it also illustrates the latest battleground in the new culture wars. While a …
Essential Evaluators: What’s in Your Soup?
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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. …
January/February 2025 Preview
In this issue: January/February 2025 issue By the Numbers: Taking the Pulse of the Post-Pandemic World The COVID-19 pandemic was the defining global disruption of the 21st century to date: …
Museums and the Elephant in the Room: The Slave Dwelling Project
This recording is from the Future of Museums Summit held November 1-2, 2023. Museums and historic sites have the potential to address historical injustices through reparative practices, …
Doing Our Part
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Museum Magazine
Museums can simultaneously make their exhibitions more sustainable and improve soc…
AI Adolescence
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Museum Magazine
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. —Stephen Hawking This article …
Is That Hung White?
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Museum Magazine
A conversation on the state of museum exhibitions and race. This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. In 2016, a group of 24 …