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Museums with a Future: Prioritizing Climate Resilience to Respond to a Changing World
This year’s TrendsWatch report spotlights the urgent need for humanity to curb our carbon emissions if we are to stave off the worst extremes of climate change. The term …
Security, Self-Care, and Terrorism Resources
It is our hope that in the coming days our nation will experience a peaceful Inauguration Day following Martin Luther King Jr. Day earlier in the week. However, the recent insurrection at …
Facing the Rising Tide: How the Whitney Museum of American Art Addresses Resiliency and Storm Preparedness Through Design
With rising sea levels and stronger floods and hurricane seasons, priceless cultural sites and museum collections around the world are increasingly under threat from severe weather events …
Eye of the Storm: How Do Museums Prepare for Hurricanes during a Pandemic?
It’s a Thursday afternoon in July and the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR) is almost empty. Director Marta Mabel Pérez is in her office, leading a virtual hub of staff and other …
Van Gogh Painting Stolen After Thieves Apparently Smash Dutch Museum Entrance
The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884, by Vincent van Gogh was stolen from the Singer Laren museum near Amsterdam. “Perhaps coincidentally, the painting taken Monday morning …
Is Your Museum Prepared for Ransomware?
You come into your office, juggling your gym bag and a cup of hot coffee, and boot up your laptop to an ominous red and black screen that announces: “All your files and documents have been …
Making a Splash! 6 Things to Know about Exhibits with Water
It’s no surprise that many museums choose to entertain and educate visitors with the stuff that covers 71 percent of our planet’s surface. Water can contribute greatly to a wide variety of …
The Case for Digital Facility Reports
Facility management is one of the core elements of running a museum. As AAM’s core standards say, it is “incumbent upon [museums] to ensure the safety of their staff, visitors and …
How Australian Art Museums Are Protecting Their Collections From Fire Threats
In this article for Observer, Helen Holmes highlights the ways in which Australian art museums are responding to the country’s destructive bushfires that broke out late last year. “While …
The battle to rebuild centuries of science after an epic inferno
Read this article for a story of the people who are rebuilding their research, the collections, and their lives in the year following the fire that devastated Brazil’s National Museum …