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Curatorial Practice
Discovering Community Through Augmented Reality
The Arizona State Museum (ASM) recently led an exciting project that transcends traditional boundaries—curatorial, geographical, and technological. Discovering Community in the Borderlands …
Historical Connections: Working with Living Artists in the Museum Setting
Since its founding in 1961, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) has championed the voices of American artists, openly sharing their creativity by providing the public with …
Reframing the Collection: How a Literary Catalog Experiment Brought New Voices to Interpretation
The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art (Stanley) is part of the arts ecosystem at the country’s premier university for the study of creative writing. As a curatorial team, we have …
Probing Grief at Historic House Museums
Historic house museums can connect their physical spaces with personal experiences, including grief. This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s May/June 2024 issue, a benefit of …
Striving for Excellence in Exhibition Label Writing
In just a few months, a quarter of the twenty-first century will be behind us. Much has changed in museums over that time. Some of that change has been brought on by technology and new ways …
Consensual Curation and Our Common Future
The best thinking about potential futures explores the full span of the Cone of Plausibility. By expanding our understanding of what is possible, we expand our choices regarding what is …
When the Ancestors Call to You
When we think about barriers to change, practical issues like time, money, and legal issues often are top of mind. This can be true, for example, when museums talk about repatriation, …
A Journey of Healing: Creating Co-Stewardship with Tribal Communities
What’s in a name? The language we use tells us who is speaking, from what perspective, and (implicitly), who controls the narrative. Names, in short, have power. Today on the blog, Caitlin …
The Earnest Work of Dreaming: Chicanafuturism in Visual Art
Visions of the future created by and centering the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) are essential to our collective potential to transform the world as we …
Curator Core Competencies
Curator Core Competencies is a comprehensive statement of the areas in which curators work, the duties they perform, and the applied skills that they must all possess to be successful in …
In Good Relation: Reimagining the Grant Process for Community-Based Projects
In recent years, there have been renewed calls for museums to adopt more inclusive and equitable practices, with significant changes to the ways we work and collaborate at all levels of our …
The Who, What, and Why of Storytelling in Museums
Watch this conversation between Adina Langer, Gina J. Wouters, and Colleen Higginbotham as they discuss how to make museum storytelling as engaging a…
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November Advocacy Updates – Museums Advocacy and What the election means for museums
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Advocacy Alert
Advocacy Alert – November 15, 2024 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Registration Opening Soon: Museums Advocacy Day 2025 – Feb. 24-25 Nominate a Legislator: Nominate a …
K-12 History Education, Museums, and Perceived Curricular Gaps: A 2024 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Data Story
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This visual Data Story is based on findings from the 2024 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers, a national survey of American museum visitors from AAM and Wilkening Consulting. Every year, the …
2024 Annual National Snapshot of United States Museums
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Research and Reports
About the Report The 2024 Annual National Snapshot of United States Museums survey, conducted by AAM and Wilkening Consulting, was fielded in August 2024. It tracked key metrics the …