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Food Forward: Eat and drink trends in museums
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the May/June 2015 edition of the Museum magazine. Museums today are leveraging eating, drinking and tasting in new ways for visitors. Institutions … -
Doing Our Part
Category: Museum MagazineMuseums can simultaneously make their exhibitions more sustainable and improve soc… -
The Museum Inside Out: The Chicago History Museum’s three decades of transformation offers a window into the changing role of curators and community engagement.
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Founded in 1856, the Chicago Historical Society was imagined at a time … -
Trans Inclusion: Shedding light on gender transition and inclusion in the workplace.
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the September/October 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Transgender people are a lot more common than you might imagine: recent … -
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 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 … -
4 Ideas to Create Linguistic Accessibility at Museums
Category: Alliance BlogThough the word “accessibility” has often been equated with giving access to those with disabilities, it can also mean something broader. Accessibility means looking at everything we create … -
Museums and Personalized Learning
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogTechnology is fueling personalization of products, services, communications and experiences. We explored some of the implications of this trend in TrendsWatch 2015, but the impact and … -
“Most Americans are trapped in a history that they do not understand”
Category: Alliance BlogThe final keynote speaker at this year’s AAM Annual Meeting In New Orleans was Jose Antonio Vargas, author of Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, Pulitzer-prize-winning … -
Collecting Girlhood: Why the new activist museum is virtual
Category: Alliance BlogThe assumption that museums must be permanent buildings with physical collections is no longer sustainable. With decreased funding, increased competition, and the burden of care, museums …
