Discipline-Specific and Technical Standards and Professional Practices
The following list includes published standards and professional practices that are specific to certain kinds of museums or functional areas. If you know about or use other statements of standards and professional practices, we invite you to share them with AAM so we might disseminate them to the wider museum field. Email us here.
- New – Standards for Museums with Native American Collections (The School for Advanced Research)
- AAM Collections Stewardship Professional Network: Code of Ethics and Professional Practices for Collections Professionals
- AAM Committee on Education Professional Network (EdCom): Excellence in Practice: Museum Education Principles and Standards
- AAM Professional Network Council: Standards for Museum Exhibitions and Indicators of Excellence
- AAM Security Committee Professional Network and ASIS International:
- AAMC Foundation Professional Practices for Art Curators in Nonprofits
- Association of Art Museum Directors: Professional Practices in Art Museums
- American Association for Museum Volunteers: Standards and Best Practices for Museum Volunteer Programs
- American Association for State and Local History: AASLH Statement of Professional Standards and Ethics
- Association of Academic Museums and Galleries: Professional Practices for Academic Museums & Galleries
- Association of Children’s Museums: Standards for Professional Practice in Children’s Museums
- HeritageRail Alliance: Recommended Practices for Railway Museums
- Association of Science-Technology Centers: ASTC Resource Center (multi-topic)
- National Association for Interpretation: Interpretation Standards – A Pathway Towards Excellence
- National Park Service: The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties
- Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections: Guidelines for the Care of Natural History Collections
- Society of American Archivists: Standards Portal (multi-topic)