Museums and the Elephant in the Room: The Slave Dwelling Project
This recording is from the Future of Museums Summit held November 1-2, 2023. Museums and historic sites have the potential to address historical injustices through reparative practices, …
Doing Our Part
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Museum Magazine
Museums can simultaneously make their exhibitions more sustainable and improve soc…
Essential Evaluators: What’s in Your Soup?
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Alliance Blog
Essential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. …
A Growing Backlash to DEI
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Do you remember seeing this picture attempting to illustrate the difference between equality and equity? Now it also illustrates the latest battleground in the new culture wars. While a …
Call for Papers for Exhibition journal
Proposals due January 6, 2025 for the Fall 2025 Issue Our editorial advisors will vet proposals in a blind review process, and you will be notified of acceptance or non-acceptance by …
The Most Important Question to Ask in a Capital Campaign
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Alliance Blog
Nina Simon is the Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and author of The Participatory Museum (2010), The Art of Relevance (2016) and the popular Museum 2.0 …
AI Adolescence
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Museum Magazine
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. —Stephen Hawking This article …
Annual Meeting Featured Speaker Roundup
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Alliance Blog
Hello from a sunny and warm St. Louis, MO. We’re learning so much about Gateways for Understanding at the AAM Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. Today I thought I would give you a quick …
On-Demand Programs
Are you an Individual, Ally, Industry, Tier 2, or Tier 3 Member? Log in to access dozens of AAM on-demand programs as a benefit of your AAM membership! Programs cover a range of topics to …
Getting Civic with Gen Z: A Q&A with Caroline Klibanoff of Made By Us
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Alliance Blog
As museum staff, our workdays are filled with time-consuming tasks, our to-do lists constantly expanding with emails to write, memos to produce, projects to advance, and programs to put on. …
Artificial Intelligence The Rise Of The Intelligent Machine
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a …
Strategizing Me: Make a Personal Career Plan
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Museum Magazine
This article appeared in the March/April 2017 issue of Museum magazine. Effective leaders create mission statements to shape their museum careers. The one thing that can be said …