How the Delaware Art Museum is Centering Community Voices in Interpretive Planning
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Alliance Blog
In 2018, the Delaware Art Museum (DelArt) began a radically inclusive approach to reinstallation planning, integrating community voices at every stage through focus groups, iterative …
Designing a Museum Volunteer Program
Introducing a new edition! This toolkit has helped hundreds of museum professionals create successful and sustainable volunteer programs. Now in its second edition, you too can get the …
Act Now: Contact Senators to Support OMS Funding
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Advocacy Alert
Advocacy Alert – May 3, 2024 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Act Now: Urge Your Senators to Support OMS Funding! Save the Date: Invite Congress to Visit Your Museum is August 12-16 …
Visitors with Vision Loss
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2012 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Art Beyond Sight/Art Education for the Blind (ABS) encourages the visual arts …
Finding New Audiences in Small Markets
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Alliance Blog
While most major museums are based in urban centers or tourist hubs, those located in more rural areas face a unique challenge to expand their reach. Without a large local population or a …
Becoming a Data Startup – Part 2
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Alliance Blog
It’s time again for our next installment of Becoming a Data Startup! For those of you who read along in our last post, you learned some simple tips and tricks for formatting your data that …
On the Ground: How Visitor Experience Teams Are Teaching Front-Line Staff to Be DEAI Advocates
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Alliance Blog
In the museum experience world, making visitors feel welcome is serious business. Our goal is to exceed guests’ standards for positive experiences, and nothing undermines that goal like a …
Too Fast to Go Slow
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is one of three museums enrolled in the third round of Innovation Lab for Museums—a MetLife funded program offered by EmcArts in partnership with CFM. …
What If Educators Ran a Museum?
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I’ve been intrigued by the El Segundo Museum of Art since I first read about it in the Los Angeles Times when the museum opened in 2013. That article emphasized ESMoA’s focus on arts …
Throwback Thursday: Respite, Retreat…and Privacy
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
In TrendsWatch 2013, we covered the rising dissatisfaction with our always-connected, hyper-digital world, giving birth to a movement dubbed “digital detox.” Now, as documented …
SWF ISO Museum Position
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This week’s guest post is an interview with future museum professional Paige LaCour, student in museum management at Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies and volunteer at …
The Post-educational Museum
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
The recent kerfluffle about whether museums should be included in the federal stimulus bill was a depressing reminder of the narrow stereotypes into which museums force themselves in order …
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