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Reflections on AAM’s Board Diversity Training

By Laura Lott

Laura Lott is the President and CEO of the American Alliance of Museums. As I have spoken and blogged about for the past year, I learned A LOT in just a few days at the 2016 Forum on Workplace Inclusion in Minneapolis last March. (By the …
Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News 2/17/2017

By Liz Neely

This week’s Roundup shares stories about the virtues of complexity, #DayOfFacts, alternate reality in service of accessibility, #Art-Less without immigrants, and some tips for crafting a meaningful visitor experience. Enjoy! 1. We’ll …
#DayofFacts Questions Answered

By Mara Kurlandsky and Allison Hartley

In a recent article, Alli Hartley and Mara Kurlandsky wrote about the inspiration and goals for the #DayofFacts social media campaign taking place on Friday, February 17. Over the course of the past few weeks, they’ve received a number of …
#DayofFacts Explained

By Mara Kurlandsky and Allison Hartley

#DayofFacts is an international social media campaign occurring on February 17, 2017. Alli Hartley and Mara Kurlandsky developed the concept as a day where institutions share mission-related content using the hashtag #DayofFacts. Alli and …
Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News 2/10/2017

By Liz Neely

This week’s five opens access to 375,000 images, ponders preserving the spirit of punk rock, immerses into virtual reality, writes social stories and develops risk-takers. Enjoy! 1. Earlier this week the Metropolitan Museum of Art …
What Are You Going to Build?: Creating a ‘Brighter World’ through International Exchange

By Alexandra Roe

We stood near the back of a crowded art room surrounded by mismatched couches and stools where students fresh out of class and/or work for the day were seated: one rummaging through her backpack, a few typing away on their smartphones, …
Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News 2/3/2017

By Liz Neely

Enjoy your weekend with this week’s five picks for the Roundup. 1. Black History Month in the U.S. is intended to honor, as President Ford stated in his 1976 address officially designating the month, the “too-often neglected …
Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News

By Liz Neely

Welcome to our fresh baked new column entitled Weekly Roundup: Museums in the News. Here we’ll pick 5 stories from the week that we found relevant, intriguing, fun or all of the above. 1. We’ll start this week’s …
The power of applied data for museums

By Andrew Simnick

Dr. Andrew Simnick is Senior Vice President for Finance, Strategy, and Operations at The Art Institute of Chicago. Matthew W. Norris is Executive Director of Analytics at The Art Institute of Chicago.Since 2014, Andrew and Matthew have …
We Want You!: The Targeted Recruitment of Youth

By By Multiple Authors

The world is rapidly growing, becoming more interconnected and increasingly diverse. Diversity means many things, from gender equality, to racial and socioeconomic equity. Many cultural institutions have out-of-school-time classes, …