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With over 70 programs to choose from, our on-demand programs cover a range of topics and offer an affordable, accessible, and convenient online learning opportunity for you, your staff, and your colleagues.
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Confronting Colonialism: Intersections of Scientific and Cultural Knowledge
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Natural History museums play a unique and urgent role in helping document and understand the world’s …
Leveraging Permanent Collection Objects for Collaboration and Change
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Throughout the museum field, institutions have been grappling with how to address problematic objects in their …
60 Ideas in 60 Minutes Small Museums are Thriving
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In this fast-paced and dynamic session, four small museum professionals showcase how small museums – which face …
Future Chat: Navigating the Culture Wars
Museums across the country are increasingly caught up in partisan skirmishes, called out for their exhibits, programming, or for taking (or not taking) a stand on current events. What kinds …
Research Insights from AAM’s Museum Board Leadership Survey
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. What is the state of museum governance today? Hear the results of AAM’s Museum Board Leadership survey, …
Strategy, So what? Using the Strategist’s Toolkit to Help Museums Thrive
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Strategic planning gets a bad rap. Hours of meetings. Hundreds of post-its. And at the end, all you get is a …
Future Chat: Coping with Climate Risk
Climate change is affecting museums, their communities, and all of humanity. As trusted institutions with significant influence and resources, museums have the power to help avert the worst …
Shields Up! Safety, Security, and Inclusion for LGBTQ+ Programming
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and access – these core values are central to museum standards of excellence …
Reducing Carbon Emissions in a Complex Environment
In this recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo, learn about the Heritage Museums and Gardens’ Strategic Sustainability Plan, which outlines the institution’s …
Not the F Word You Know: Embracing Failure to Move Forward
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In the museum field, we work tirelessly to create safe environments where our visitors can explore, build …
Algorithms & Artifacts: Deciphering AI’s Role in Museums
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. As museum professionals, understanding the basics of AI and its implications to our industry is crucial. If the …
Neuroarts 101: How the Arts and Aesthetic Experiences Advance Health and Wellbeing
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. This workshop provides an overview of neuroarts: the study of how the arts and aesthetic experiences measurably …
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