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Future Chat: Diving into Museum Data

As the country rebounds from the COVID-19 pandemic, how are museums doing? Who is coming to museums and why, how does attendance compare to pre-pandemic norms? What are the barriers to …

Toward a More Human Museum: Trust and Well-Being for Staff and Visitors

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In the current political climate, the work museums are doing to become more human and empathic may be …

Fostering Resilience in Children through Virtual Mindfulness

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In the face of an epidemic of anxiety, depression, and physical disease, many museums have been exploring …

Disrupting the Traditional Narrative: Including Oral Histories in Museums

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Museums have been guilty of discounting oral histories as “non-academic” or “inappropriate” methods of …

Money Matters: Creating a Path to Financial Sustainability

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. As museums compete against a growing range of leisure and educational options, they must reevaluate their …

Research Insights from AAM’s Museum Board Leadership Survey

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. What is the state of museum governance today? Hear the results of AAM’s Museum Board Leadership survey, …

Curating Trauma and Violence: Preparing and Caring for Communities and Staff

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In this recorded session, museum professionals from various institutions – a museum focused on the Holocaust, a …

60 Ideas in 60 Minutes: Small Museums are Thriving!

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In this fast-paced and dynamic session, four small museum professionals showcase how small museums – which face …

Future Chat: Navigating the Culture Wars

Museums across the country are increasingly caught up in partisan skirmishes, called out for their exhibits, programming, or for taking (or not taking) a stand on current events. What kinds …

Strategy, So what? Using the Strategist’s Toolkit to Help Museums Thrive

This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Strategic planning gets a bad rap. Hours of meetings. Hundreds of post-its. And at the end, all you get is a …
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Innovations in Relevance: A Q&A with Stephen Reily of Remuseum

Category: Alliance Blog
I first learned about Stephen Reily when he was the director of Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, which at the time was making headlines for its Breonna Taylor-themed exhibition …

Urgent: Protect IMLS from Indiscriminate Staffing Cuts

Category: Advocacy Alert
Please take a moment today to contact your members of Congress and express concerns about potential indiscriminate staffing cuts at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). As a …

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