Museums Advocacy – American Alliance of Museums

Show Congress How Vital Museums Are – Advocate from Anywhere During Museums Advocacy Day!

By Ember Farber

Right now hundreds of advocates are gathering in Washington, DC for Museums Advocacy Day 2019. But you don’t have to be on Capitol Hill to join the cause and speak up for museums. Use our updated Advocate from Anywhere tools to: …
Dealing With Disruption

By Elizabeth Merritt

Each year I look forward to Museums Advocacy Day as an opportunity to focus my futurist lens on political trends. In the past, I’ve invited attendees to consider the future of nonprofit status in the US, the future of education, and even …
Shaping the First 100 Days

By Elizabeth Merritt

I hope you read my colleague Gail’s Tuesday post encouraging museumers to participate in the upcoming Museums Advocacy Day(February 27-18). And in a nice bit of timing, the first episode of 100 Days for Good, a new podcast from Independent …
Be a Truthteller. Advocate for Museums.

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today Gail Ravnitzky Silberglied, Vice President for Government Relations & Communications here at the Alliance, can help rebuild an appreciation for facts in a year awash in fake news. There are dozens of reasons to be part of Museums …
Advocating for the Future of Education

By Elizabeth Merritt

From Getmot.com I’m going to interview Abraham Lincoln. You can help. February 25-26 is the 5th annual Museums Advocacy Day. This year the Alliance is offering a free virtual conference so you can take part even if you can’t get to D.C. …
Making the Most of What We Have: Museums & Collaboration

By Elizabeth Merritt

Yesterday, at the orientation for Museums AdvocacyDay, deputy director Cora Marrett of the National Science Foundation predicted that, in a future of increased resource constraints, museums will need to collaborate on competitive funding …
Choosing Roles: Facilitator or Advocate?

By Elizabeth Merritt

Would you rather be loved, or would you rather save the world? You can’t necessarily have both. I pondered this choice, as it applies to museums, yesterday morning at the last half day of the 21st Century Learning in Natural History …
Advocacy Day 2027: museums fight to regain nonprofit status

By Elizabeth Merritt

I looked across the table at the poised young woman politely scanning the figures I had pulled up on the airscreen between us. “Ms. Guerrera,” I said, palms sweating, “as you can see, in the ten years since the Federal Government withdrew …
Civic Duty Calls

By Elizabeth Merritt

In this blog post, AAM Director of Government Relations and Advocacy Gail Ravnitzky Silberglied explores why advocacy—like voting, jury service, and paying taxes—is a civic duty that furthers our nation’s democracy and prepares us and our …
The Backward ABC’s of Museum Data

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week’s blog post comes from Philip M. Katz, assistant director for research at AAM. This was going to be an essay about the power of museum financial and operating data—robust, reliable numbers that can help museums plan for the …