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Lessons Learned from SARS (and Strikes) at the Ontario Science Center

By Elizabeth Merritt

Often the best way to foresee the future is to revisit the past. In March, professor Marjorie Schwarzer offered an overview of how US museums responded to three pandemics in the 20th century. Today on the blog, Jennifer Martin, Julie …
How to Get Ready to Open the Doors

By Elizabeth Merritt

Support Free COVID-19 Resources for the Field: These resources have been taken out from behind the member paywall to make them free and accessible for all. The current crisis is taking a distressing financial toll on cultural …
“The museum we closed will not be the museum we reopen.”

By Scott Stulen

Support Free COVID-19 Resources for the Field The current crisis is taking a distressing financial toll on cultural organizations, and AAM is no different. The Alliance Blog is supported by membership dues and donations. In these …
Earth Day during COVID-19: Green Tips for Closed Museums

By Joyce S. Lee

In 2020, Earth Day falls during a time when much of the coronavirus-stricken world is staying at home. Every part of the global community is impacted, and museums have been hit particularly hard. Meanwhile, we find ourselves living in a …
Introducing the Museum Distance Learning Repository

By Sarah Jencks

When our institutions shut their doors for the foreseeable future just over a month ago, museum educators did what they do best. That is to say, we pivoted. Across the continent—and around the world—those of us who spend our days designing …
Short Term Strategies for Museum Workers

By Elizabeth Merritt

As I wrote in the latest edition of TrendsWatch, staff who feel valued, supported, and trained are a museum’s most important resource for implementing long-term strategies for financial sustainability. Staff are the foundation of a …
A Small Museum’s Rapid Response Collecting Project for COVID-19

By Anne Raymond

For historians, there is history in the making at any given moment. The life events, triumphs, and tragedies we experience and record help us define our ever-changing world for generations to come. So, when the coronavirus began affecting …
Culture and Community in a Time of Crisis: Join a National Audience Research Collaboration

By Elizabeth Merritt

As museums navigate the coming months and plan for reopening, they find themselves both deluged with too much information and sorely lacking critical data to inform their decision-making. Your news feeds are probably flooded with stories …
How Complexity Theory Can Help Decision-Making in Chaotic Times

By Jennifer Martin

You wouldn’t be wrong to call these times chaotic. But chaos, though not always life-threatening in the way of COVID-19, is not uncommon in our work. In November of 2011, I was a CEO leading the opening of a brand-new science center—new …
Three New Scenarios for Financial Survival in 2020

By Elizabeth Merritt

Support Free COVID-19 Resources for the Field: The current crisis is taking a distressing financial toll on cultural organizations, and AAM is no different. The Center for the Future of Museums is supported by AAM membership and …