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September/October 2024 Preview
In this issue: September/October 2024 issue By the Numbers: Leadership Outlook » Stats from AAM’s Museum Board Leadership Report and surveys conducted on the needs of AAM members shed … -
Balancing Act: Honoring Feedback While Staying True to Your Mission
Category: On-Demand ProgramsThis is a recorded session from the 2025 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. As museums take on challenging topics, audience reactions may be strong and varied. In this session, consider … -
CARE-apy: Analyzing Data for Action
Category: On-Demand ProgramsYou’ve figured out your evaluation questions and methods and collected your data, but now what? Join us for a CARE-apy discussion about what happens after your evaluation data have been … -
January/February 2026 Preview
In this issue: January/February 2026 issue By the Numbers: Signals of the Future 69% of US museums were negatively impacted by executive orders and actions in 2025. 63% of US museums … -
Right to Rest
Category: Exhibition JournalThis article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2025) Vol. 44 No. 2 and is reproduced with permission. Alma Thomas (1891–1978) was an American artist, educator, and community … -
#AAM2019 Keynote: Kippen de Alba Chu and Kimberly Drew
< Disclaimer: This video is unedited and contains several “unbeeped” profanities. Transcript Kippen de Alba Chu: Good morning, everyone. Yeah, this morning’s script was … -
Revisiting Wild Times: The Loss of Nonprofit Status
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogIn 2018 I published a scenario titled “Wild Times” set in a version of 2040 in which museums lost their nonprofit status due to a combination of political attacks, economic stress, and a … -
Different Lenses for Addressing Our Planet Crisis
Category: On-Demand ProgramsIt will take more than the media and science-based institutions to educate the population about the climate crisis and how individuals can take personal or collective action. This session … -
Museopunks Episode 38: Decolonization and its Discontents
As decolonization moves more firmly onto the agenda in museums, so too does its critique. In this episode, we speak with Sumaya Kassim, author of the essay ‘The Museum Will Not Be … -
Beyond the Four-Legged Chicken
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the July/August 2010 edition of Museum magazine. A History of Museum Registration In 1881, an important moment occurred in the history of registration. …
