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Annual Meeting Featured Speaker Roundup
Category: Alliance BlogHello from a sunny and warm St. Louis, MO. We’re learning so much about Gateways for Understanding at the AAM Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. Today I thought I would give you a quick … -
The Most Important Question to Ask in a Capital Campaign
Category: Alliance BlogNina Simon is the Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and author of The Participatory Museum (2010), The Art of Relevance (2016) and the popular Museum 2.0 … -
60 Ideas in 60 Minutes Small Museums are Thriving Annual Meeting Rewatch
Category: On-Demand ProgramsCurious about the AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo but not sure what to expect? Join us for a special preview event featuring two of our most talked-about sessions from recent … -
Throwback Thursday: Revisiting the future workforce
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThis week’s Dispatches from the Future of Museums features a story about a report from the Labor Department that shows the rate of volunteerism in the U.S,. is the lowest it has been … -
Strategizing Me: Make a Personal Career Plan
Category: Museum MagazineThis article appeared in the March/April 2017 issue of Museum magazine. Effective leaders create mission statements to shape their museum careers. The one thing that can be said … -
Point of View: Repairing Leader-Staff Trust
Category: Museum MagazineClaims about integrity, benevolence, and sincerity are at the heart of many internal organizational conflicts. This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s May/June 2025 issue, a … -
The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2025
Category: Alliance BlogSome years, it takes a bit of reflection to find the throughline in museum discourse. 2025 has not been one of them. The main story has been clear: as a new presidential administration came … -
On-Demand Programs
Are you an Individual, Ally, Industry, Tier 2, or Tier 3 Member? Log in to access dozens of AAM on-demand programs as a benefit of your AAM membership! Programs cover a range of topics to … -
March/April 2024 Preview
In this issue: Mar/Apr 2024 issue By the Numbers: Museum Volunteers Explore some of the data from 5,340 museum volunteers who participated in the 2023 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers. (US … -
The Concept of An Exhibition
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the March/April 2013 edition of Museum magazine. An excerpt from Exhibitions · Concept Planning and Design, The AAM Press, 2012. Museum objects are like …
