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Labor of Love: Revaluing Museum Work
This post was originally published on Medium, December 20, 2017. Over the last few years, museum workers have been increasingly vocal about job dissatisfaction. At the 2015 American … -
Engagement Strategies During Times of Low (or no) Attendance
Category: On-Demand Programs: Engaging AudiencesThis is a recorded session from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. This session looks at how museums can engage with their audience during times of low, no, or altered … -
When Robots Learn to be Creative, What Happens to Informal Learning
Category: On-Demand Programs: Future of MuseumsThe proliferation of AI, particularly Large-Language Models, has rapidly emerged as a transformative force in formal education. This presentation explores the factors driving the increasing … -
In Our Voices: Designing Victim-Centered Exhibits about Human Rights Issues
Category: On-Demand ProgramsThis is a recorded session from the 2025 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In a recent survey, a major Holocaust museum unearthed a disturbing truth: Far more students could name Nazi … -
Curating Trauma and Violence: Preparing and Caring for Communities and Staff
Category: On-Demand ProgramsThis is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In this recorded session, museum professionals from various institutions – a museum focused on the Holocaust, a … -
Fostering Resilience in Children through Virtual Mindfulness
Category: On-Demand ProgramsThis is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In the face of an epidemic of anxiety, depression, and physical disease, many museums have been exploring … -
Museopunks Episode 36: Queering Your Museum
The end of Pride Month does not mean that we should stop talking or thinking about LGBTQIA+ inclusion and queer curating practices in museums. This month, we’re joined by Craig Middleton … -
Keynote Speakers Donovan Livingston & Frank Waln
Category: 2018 Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZAward-winning educator Donovan Livingston and Sicangu Lakota hip hop artist Frank Waln explore what a decolonized system of education would look like and how museums can p… -
Toward a More Human Museum: Trust and Well-Being for Staff and Visitors
Category: On-Demand ProgramsThis is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In the current political climate, the work museums are doing to become more human and empathic may be … -
Putting Social Science to Work in Climate Change Interpretation
Category: On-Demand ProgramsPublic engagement efforts on climate change must start with the fundamental recognition that people have different psychological, cultural, and political reasons for acting—or not acting—to …
