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A Holistic and People-Centered Approach to Accessible Exhibition Design
Category: On-Demand ProgramsThis is a recorded session from the 2025 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Developing an accessible exhibition requires collaboration among museum staff, artists, and audiences. In this … -
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Book Titles From titles covering DEAI and governance to exhibitions and digital, the Alliance partners with the internationally known Bloomsbury Publishing to provide the best and most … -
Searching for Truffles: History Nebraska is using curiosity to grow staff capacity and enrich the museum experience
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the September/October 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. History Nebraska’s museum recently reopened following extensive … -
Sites of Healing: The Michigan State University Museum turned to community co-curation to tell survivors’ stories of sexual violence.
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the November/December 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Michigan State University (MSU) has been ground zero of the largest … -
Resisting the Colonial Imagination: The Role of Exhibition Design in the Decolonial Project
Category: Exhibition JournalIt is Monday morning at First Americans Museum (FAM), and a group of fifth graders are bustling with excitement as they embark on a gallery tour. A museum educator welcomes the students in … -
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 … -
Museum Accessibility Helping Patrons Who Are Blind to See Your Exhibitions
Audio description (AD), a relatively inexpensive and readily available technology, broadens the museum experience for all people and particularly for patrons who cannot see or have low … -
TrendsWatch 2019: Confronting the Past: The long, hard work of decolonization
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThis is one of the five trends from the 2019 TrendsWatch. Click here to read more about the full report. “Colonialism and imperialism have not settled their debt to us once they have … -
Creative Agers Throughout History
Category: Alliance BlogI’ve recommended Gene D. Cohen’s book The Creative Age any number of times in these Ad Summa blogs, and one of the elements that makes the book so memorable is the continuing list in the … -
Historic Walls, Modern Vision
Category: Museum MagazineThe Museum of Early Trades & Crafts built a roadmap for restoration, expansion, and community impact. What makes a museum a museum? Is it the collection, the educational impact, or the …
