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CARE-apy: On the Road to Welcome: Starting your accessibility journey
Category: AccessibilityThe concepts of accessibility and inclusion are not new. There is not, however, a straightforward blueprint for doing this work in a clear-cut and approachable way, meaning many museum … -
Stories of Inclusion: ADA@25 and Universal Design at Cultural Institutions
Category: On-Demand ProgramsThis recorded webinar will help guide you in finding approaches to sharing information and telling compelling stories that can help audiences make meaning of their museum ex… -
Education & Interpretation Resources
Standards The Alliance shares standards on Education and Interpretation. Audience Research and Evaluation This section provides resources for understanding visitors and the different types … -
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 … -
Museum Design 2034: Respite and Retreat
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThis is the third installment of a series of “stories from the future” illustrating how museum practitioners can use trends data as a jumping off point for exploring potential futures. … -
Improving the Search: Uncovering AI bias in digital collections
Category: Museum MagazineThe ethical stewardship of our cherished collections has increasingly become a priority for North American museums grappling with centuries of Eurocentric and colonial-imperial history. … -
Museopunks Episode 40: A very human exhibition
Being Human, the new permanent gallery at Wellcome Collection explores what it means to be human in the 21st century. In creating the exhibition, the Wellcome Collection worked with two … -
Philosophy of Choice: What if visitors could choose their own intellectual pathways in museum exhibitions?
Category: Museum MagazineWhat if visitors could choose their own intellectual pathways in museum exhibitions? This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s July/August 2024 issue, a benefit of … -
The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2024
Category: Alliance BlogThe museum field has emphasized ethics and standards for at least a century—in fact, the need to solidify them was one of the primary reasons for the founding of AAM in 1906. And yet, …