Valuing and Creating Value: AAM’s Recent Internship Project

Category: Alliance Blog
Do you enjoy reading Museum, the Alliance’s award-winning magazine? Well, if you do, we’re excited to tell you that we’ve been busy digitizing past feature articles and adding …

Museums in Good Health

Category: Museum Magazine
The article originally appeared in the January/February 2014 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of membership with the Alliance. An adapted excerpt from Museums On Call: How Museums Are …

Making History Accessible: Toolkit for Multisensory Interpretation

Category: On-Demand Programs
In 2019, the Intrepid Museum and New York University Ability Project brought together staff of historic sites, disability advocates, and experts in historic preservation and museum …

A Free Survey to Measure a Sense of Belonging at Museums

Category: Alliance Blog
Not everyone wants to visit a museum. This is in part because of operational issues like cost, location, schedule, but these aren’t the whole story. Some don’t even reach the point of …

The Fixer Upper Effect: Waco museums enjoy the ride (and try to learn the deeper meaning)

Category: Alliance Blog
It’s Monday, November 5, at 1:01 pm. I’m headed to a meeting in downtown Waco, Texas. As I drive by The Silos, a retail space developed by Fixer Upper stars Chip and Joanna Gaines, I am …

Institutional Evolution: How Monticello faced and interpreted a legacy of slavery

Category: Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2013 edition of the Museum magazine.  A statue of Thomas Jefferson stands before a curved wall. A sculpture of the nation’s …

Museums Can Change the World: Improving the Nation’s Health

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
A projection for the U.S., by 2030: Obesity prevalence will rise to ~50% in men between 45% and 52% in women. There will be: 7.8 million extra cases of diabetes; 6.8 million more cases of …

When a Private Museum Has Massive Public Support

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Even before the 2008 financial collapse only 56 percent of museums received support from local government, and that funding made up about 10 percent of their overall operating budget. The …

Changing the Rules of Engagement: Evidence-based strategies for depolarization and civil discourse

Category: Museum Magazine
There are evidence-based strategies museums can employ to become sites of depolarization and civil discourse. This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s July/August 2024 issue, a …

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