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Effective Exhibitions Should Provoke!
Category: Exhibition JournalEffective 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 … -
Questioning Assumptions: The Ideal Employee:Volunteer Ratio
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogToday’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 … -
Expanding Public Value
Category: Museum MagazineAs you build bridges with communities, consider using dig… -
Measuring Museum Social Impact: Lessons and Resources from a National Study
Category: Social ImpactWith 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 … -
A Growing Backlash to DEI
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogDo 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 … -
Soundtrack for an Equitable Conference
Category: Alliance BlogCradled 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 … -
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: … -
Essential Evaluators: What’s in Your Soup?
Category: Alliance BlogEssential 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. … -
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, … -
A Holistic and People-Centered Approach to Accessible Exhibition Design
Category: On-Demand ProgramsThis is a recorded session from the 2025 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Developing an accessible exhibition requires collaboration among museum staff, artists, and audiences. In this …
