Of Law and Ethics: What do museums need to know in this new era of cultural property ownership disputes?

Category: Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. A tension often exists between the law and the ethics of collecting cultural …

Forecasting the Future of Accessibility: Please Touch or Don’t Touch?

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I wish I could preview my Inbox from 2036. How come Outlook doesn’t have an option for that? As a member of AAM’s staff Ethics Taskforce, I help answer plaintive, irate, indignant and …

Questioning Assumptions: Museums in the 21st Century

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I hope you have been following my posts on the Forecast of the Future of Museum Ethics being conducted by CFM and the Institute for Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University. CFM and IME staff …

Pledge of Excellence

The Pledge of Excellence is an easy and achievable step along your museum’s path to excellence, and a way to show your museum’s commitment to being a good steward of the resources it holds …

Mastering Your Museum’s Core Documents

Get your copy today! This toolkit offers guidance on the needed resources to successfully revise or draft your museum’s core documents. With it comes a combination of tools, guidelines, and …

The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2024

Category: Alliance Blog
The 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, …

From the Ground Up: A Toolkit for Starting a Museum

Get your copy today! Why and how to use this toolkit People wish to start museums for many different reasons, such as the desire to share their passion with others, to preserve treasured …

Toxic Philanthropy

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
We live in a time in which the public is hyper sensitive to the ethics of where money comes from, and where it goes. As I observed in TrendsWatch 2015, nonprofits don’t get a free pass in …

Futurist Friday: Exploring the Future of Education

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I’ve been blogging a lot about the future of education, and the coming of a new educational era. If we are on the cusp of transformational change, it’s very important for museum futurists …

Improving the Search: Uncovering AI bias in digital collections

Category: Museum Magazine
The ethical stewardship of our cherished collections has increasingly become a priority for North American museums grappling with centuries of Eurocentric and colonial-imperial history. …

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