Probing Grief at Historic House Museums
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Museum Magazine
Historic house museums can connect their physical spaces with personal experiences, including grief. This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s May/June 2024 issue, a benefit of …
Disrupting the Traditional Narrative: Including Oral Histories in Museums
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On-Demand Programs
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Museums have been guilty of discounting oral histories as “non-academic” or “inappropriate” methods of …
Privacy in a Watchful World: What have you got to hide?
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
In a world where companies and governments can, and increasingly do, track vast amounts of personal information about our habits, preferences, behavior, communications and even our …
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 …
#AAM2019 Keynote: Kippen de Alba Chu and Kimberly Drew
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2019 Annual Meeting
< Disclaimer: This video is unedited and contains several “unbeeped” profanities. Transcript Kippen de Alba Chu: Good morning, everyone. Yeah, this morning’s script was …
Get it Together: A Regional Approach to Connect to Descendant Communities
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On-Demand Programs
Museums that care for Native American cultural objects or educate the public on Native American histories must work with descendant communities. Outreach from multiple institutions, …
In Our Voices: Designing Victim-Centered Exhibits about Human Rights Issues
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On-Demand Programs
This 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 …