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Seeds Of Change: Museums tap food trends, reap rewards.
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the September/October 2011 edition of Museum magazine. Considering all the signs that read “No food or drinks allowed,” most museum visitors … -
What YouTube Can Do for Museums
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the September/October 2016 issue of Museum magazine. How museums can use YouTube to engage visitors and extend their reach. “YouTube is the new TV”—or so … -
Getting Civic with Gen Z: A Q&A with Caroline Klibanoff of Made By Us
Category: Alliance BlogAs museum staff, our workdays are filled with time-consuming tasks, our to-do lists constantly expanding with emails to write, memos to produce, projects to advance, and programs to put on. … -
Get it Together: A Regional Approach to Connect to Descendant Communities
Category: On-Demand ProgramsMuseums that care for Native American cultural objects or educate the public on Native American histories must work with descendant communities. Outreach from multiple institutions, … -
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 … -
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 … -
The Grande Race: Making The City a Museum Without Walls
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the May/June 2010 edition of the Museum magazine. On a sunny summer afternoon, there are few people touring the galleries at the Grand Rapids Public … -
Looking Back to Move Forward: Examining Institutional Racism in Reprising “Afro-American Images 1971”
Category: Alliance BlogIn February 1971, a newly formed Delaware organization, Aesthetic Dynamics Inc., presented its first major undertaking: an exhibition of over 130 works of art—drawings, prints, photographs, … -
Market and Meaning: Indigenous art at the crossroads of commerce and repatriation
Category: Museum MagazineMaeve R. Donnelly is a collections assistant at the Syracuse University Art Museum in New York. The research presented in this article was conducted independently as part of her graduate … -
CARE-apy: Psychological Science and the Visitor Experience
When visitors leave a museum, in what ways are they different than when they walked in? What intellectual connections did visitors make with the ideas and artifacts with which they …
