10 Best Practices of Accessible Museum Websites

Category: Alliance Blog
This article explores ten high-impact areas you should consider to enhance your website’s accessibility and bring it into conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), …

What are Ethics? A Brief Essay in Plain English

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This essay introduces Round Two of the Forecasting the Future of Museum Ethicsexercise. Follow this link, to vote on which of which of the issues identified in Round One will be most …

Putting Social Science to Work in Climate Change Interpretation

Category: On-Demand Programs
Public engagement efforts on climate change must start with the fundamental recognition that people have different psychological, cultural, and political reasons for acting—or not acting—to …

The 2024 Museum Store Gift Guide

Category: Alliance Blog
As cheerful as the holiday season can be, it can also be a dizzying blur of to-dos, chief among them the task of finding thoughtful, interesting gifts that will delight their recipients. …

What YouTube Can Do for Museums

Category: Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2016 issue of Museum magazine. How museums can use YouTube to engage visitors and extend their reach. “YouTube is the new TV”—or so …

“Most Americans are trapped in a history that they do not understand”

Category: Alliance Blog
The 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 …

Spring 2025: The Ethics Issue – Preview

In this issue: Share your thoughts about this issue of Exhibition! About Exhibition Published twice a year, the journal offers 128 pages of thought-provoking articles, exhibition …

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