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Influence of Museums
2019 Award Winner for Excellence in Resources: Sea Curious Video Series
Museums are a great source of information and resources for their audiences. This year’s winner of EdCom’s Excellence in Resources award, the Shedd Aquarium’s aquatic animal video series …
How Museum Stores Support Their Institutions and the Public
Throughout my thirty years as a museum retail professional, I have often had to explain to others—whether colleagues, friends and family, or complete strangers—how museum stores support …
Sites of Healing: The Michigan State University Museum turned to community co-curation to tell survivors’ stories of sexual violence.
This article originally appeared in the November/December 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Michigan State University (MSU) has been ground zero of the largest …
Fitness Never Looked so Fun
This article originally appeared in the November/December 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis has worked with the local …
Museum Therapy
For two decades, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has nurtured resilience and renewal through its programs and practices. This article originally appeared in the November/December 2019 …
Museopunks Episode 39: A new definition of “museum”?
The season for existential crises continued this past month when the International Council of Museums (ICOM) announced that a working group had proposed a new definition for museums and …
How Museums Can Help Increase Voter Registration
Every election year, millions of Americans find themselves unable to vote because they miss a registration deadline, do not update their registration, or are unsure how to register. Our …
“Most Americans are trapped in a history that they do not understand”
The final keynote speaker at this year’s AAM Annual Meeting In New Orleans was Jose Antonio Vargas, author of Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, Pulitzer-prize-winning …
With Their Subject Matter in the Crosshairs, What Should Museums Do?
My parents were part of the generation that fought and won World War II. As their children, it was common for us to ask them, “What did you do during the war?” We wanted to be reassured …
Building a Future of Social Justice
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, I came across a picture (above) of a futurist installation by LA street artist Plastic Jesus. This bit of immersive fiction warned of a future …
Seeing Paris—and the World—through Small Museums
A few months ago, a museum exhibition sparked a thought in my mind that I haven’t stopped thinking about ever since. I was walking aimlessly around Paris and had just wandered into Le Musée …
An International Experience at #AAM2019
After moving back to Europe from America in 2016, I had never been able to come visit until last month. That’s when I flew all the way to New Orleans to attend this year’s Annual …