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2019 Museum Publications Design Competition Winner: Painting the Floating World
AAM’s annual Museum Publications Design Competition recognizes superior execution and ingenuity in the graphic design of museum publications. A panel of graphic designers, museum …
Crab Cakes, Waffles, Art: Baltimore Museum of Art Opens Branch at Storied Local Market
As part of its broader strategy to engage with the local community, the Baltimore Museum of Art has opened a branch inside Lexington Market, the city’s vast and storied indoor food …
An After-School Program Gives Refugee Children a Creative Boost
One of the many things that make Charlottesville, Virginia special is that it serves as a destination city for the International Rescue Committee, which helps refugees settle into their new …
Glenstone Museum in Potomac Opens Environmental Center
Glenstone’s mission is to “seamlessly integrates art, architecture, and landscape into a serene and contemplative environment.” That integration includes a focus on …
The Self-Care Ritual of Retreats
One reason I love museum people is that they work so hard to make the world a better place. But all too often, I see colleagues burn out and leave our field because they did not make time …
A Place at the Table: Developing diversity and next-generation leaders
In 2018, the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) in Ohio named Asmaa Walton, a Detroit native with a master’s degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, its first KeyBank Museum Fellow. The …
The Power of a Paid Internship: Creating pathways to careers in museums
In 2015, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation issued a report on diversity in art museums that reinforced what is obvious to anyone working in or affiliated with the industry: non-Hispanic white …
Listen to the Interns: The Importance of the “Budding Scholar” for Museum Decolonization
As a junior in college, I think I might have found my calling—for now anyway. For the past two and a half years I have been studying Art History, Museum Studies, and African American …
Montreal museum partners with doctors to ‘prescribe’ art
This short read describes an art museum’s deliberate pursuit of collaborations to offer patients opportunities for museum visits and art therapy, as well as their involvement in helping …
Exploring the Explosion of Museum AI
Here are five good reasons you should join me in Miami Nov 1-2 to explore how museums can use artificial intelligence to fuel their work (illustrated by recent news): AI can help users in …
This new museum doesn’t want Instagram or crowds. Does that make it elitist?
The upcoming expansion of Glenstone, a contemporary art museum in Potomac, Maryland, provides a timely opportunity to discuss the unique challenges museums face in the quest to balance …
What Does the Future Hold for China’s Museums and Art Districts?
China has been experiencing a museum boom, with a 60% increase in the number of museums country-wide between 2009 and 2014, alone. In June 2018, Museum 2050, a Shanghai-based platform for …