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Message from the President: Preparing for Tomorrow
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s January/February 2025 issue, a benefit of AAM membership. Picture this: your museum is blessed with such high attendance that the line … -
Immersive Experiences in Museums: A Look at Art Windsor-Essex’s “Against the Current”
Category: Alliance BlogTo say that a lot has changed for cultural institutions and museums in the past few years is an understatement. This is a time when visitors, who have spent the last two years enduring a … -
Catching up with Jeannette Ickovics: 2011 Feeding the Spirit Keynote Speaker
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogCan a museum win the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Childhood Obesity Challenge? With your help, maybe yes. Read on. Last winter, Jeannette Ickovics from the Yale School of Public Health … -
A Liberatory Framework: Critical race theory can help museums commit to anti-racism and combat anti-blackness
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. In an effort to provide the broadest possible access to this critical … -
The Future In The Stars: An Interview With Neil Degrasse Tyson
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the March/April 2011 edition of the Museum magazine. Museum director, astrophysicist and television personality. There are not many who claim to be all … -
3 Trauma-Informed Practices for Museums to Follow
Category: Alliance BlogEarlier this year, I presented at MuseumNext’s Museums, Health, and Wellbeing Summit about what we risk by not integrating trauma-informed practices and values into our work. In my talk, I … -
The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2019
Category: Alliance BlogIt was a whirlwind year of museums making themselves over for our changing world. Evolving ethics, social and technological transformation, and the looming presence of the bottom line are … -
Students Solve a History Mystery and Teach a Lesson in Collaboration
Category: Alliance BlogFourth and fifth graders at Silverton Elementary School reversed roles with teachers and set an example of how museums and schools can work together to broaden the telling of a community’s … -
Reinventing the Historic House Museum: MJT meets the Civil War
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogHere is another brief brain jotting as I take a break from writing TrendsWatch 2015. I’ve been vastly enjoying blog postsand tweets from Frank Vagnone, author of the Anarchist Guide to … -
Are Museums the Rightful Home for Confederate Monuments?
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogIn a chapter titled “Capture the Flag: the struggle over representation and identity,” CFM’s TrendsWatch 2016 explored the growing pressure for museums to play a role in the detoxification …
