Web Exclusives are special articles and extras to highlight topics covered in Museum magazine.

The new Practically Speaking section offers hands-on information to support museum professionals. This includes "Day in the Life," a series of first-hand accounts on how active museum professionals do their jobs.

Articles and Reference

Standards and Best Practices for U.S. Museums: The Nutshell Version

Research Round Up: Field Trips Down, Ignorance Holding Steady, Museum Visits Booming

Confessions of a Peer Reviewer

Diversifying for Your Endowment's Future

Can Museums Allow Online Users to Become Participants?

The Spots Where It Flows: Practicing Civic Engagement

Day in the Life

Educators: Tracey Beck, Pauline Eversmann and Rosemary T. Krill

Curator: Valarie Kinkade

Director of Collections: Jackie Hoff

Assistant Director and Curator: Ron Potvin

Audio
AAM's ongoing audio clip series features interviews and excerpts that correlate with Museum articles.

What's New
The newest addition to AAM's audio clip series features an interview with emerging museum professional James Yasko, manager of visitor programs at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He talks about launching his museum career and why those starting out should go out on a limb. For more essays from emerging professionals, see the article "Meet the New Boss: Opening the Door for Emerging Professionals" in the May/June issue of Museum.

James Yasko .mp3

Digital Museum .mp3

Michael Chabon .mp3

History & Families .mp3

Chocolate + Vitamins Audio Clip .mp3

Leah Arroyo Audio Clip .mp3

Phyllis Richman Audio Clip .mp3

Ford Bell Audio Clip .mp3

Museums Made Here

For this new AAM initiative, we are collecting stories about your day-to-day victories so that other museum professionals can learn from them. These stories will also help us help all museums as we share them with funders, media and legislators in Washington and in communities across the country. To participate, submit your story on the Museums Made Here webpage.