Events – American Alliance of Museums

Museums & Censorship: Preparing for Challenges & Conversations

Brianne Roth — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:25:23 +0000

Join us for a virtual program exploring the impact of censorship on museums and cultural institutions. Learn about current divisive concept legislation and examine case studies that will help you navigate challenges both now and in the future. Panelists will share insights on crafting effective messaging, developing thoughtful programming, and curating exhibitions that uphold institutional integrity while mitigating the risk of censorship. Don’t miss this opportunity to equip yourself with the knowledge and resources to advocate for your institution and its mission.

This program is FREE for SEMC members and $10 for not-yet-members. Don’t miss this important conversation and register today to attend! Can’t make it in person? That’s ok! A recording will be sent to everyone who registers.

Creating an Accessible Museum Environment – OMA Webinar

Brianne Roth — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:26:21 +0000

Discover the resources, tools, and best practices available for making Ohio’s museums accessible and inclusive for everyone.

Join Brianna Seth from Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities to identify resources to assist in making environments accessible, discover tools and best practices to support identifying, prioritizing, and achieving accessibility goals, and recognize ways to apply these resources, tools, and practices at your organization.

Creating a Culture of Advocacy at Your Museum – OMA Webinar

Brianne Roth — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:23:33 +0000

Is advocacy an afterthought for your museum? Feeling unprepared and under-resourced to engage with policymakers or pursue public funding?

Join Sarah Sisser, leader of CreativeOhio, the state’s principal arts and culture advocacy organization, for a refresher on some of the fundamentals of civic literacy and get a few simple takeaways that you can quickly implement to level-up your advocacy game. Sarah will also share the current initiatives on CreativeOhio’s public policy agenda and what we might expect for arts and humanities at the state and federal levels in 2025.

Museums & Schools Summit

Brianne Roth — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 19:09:18 +0000

How can museums and schools collaborate to create meaningful learning experiences, foster creativity, and engage students?

Join us for the Museums and Schools Summit, a two-day virtual event that brings together museum educators, teachers, and cultural professionals to explore innovative ways museums are partnering with schools.

With examples from around the globe, this event will showcase the best strategies for building strong, impactful museum-school partnerships.

Museum AI Summit

Brianne Roth — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 19:06:46 +0000

Museums have long been regarded as custodians of history and culture, but today they are also embracing the forefront of technological innovation. Leading this transformation is artificial intelligence, which has the potential to revolutionize how museums engage with their audiences, curate their collections, and operate behind the scenes.

The Museum AI Summit 2025 will explore how AI is reshaping the museum landscape. From enhancing visitor experiences to streamlining operations, AI is unlocking new possibilities for creativity, accessibility, and engagement within cultural institutions.

Through thought-provoking discussions, real-world case studies, and actionable insights, we will examine the ways museums are already leveraging AI, as well as the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.

Join us live from anywhere with an internet connection. As with all MuseumNext conferences, sessions will also be available on-demand for 12 months, allowing you to revisit and engage with the content at your convenience.

Speakers from:

TATE
American Museum of Natural History
Qatar Museums
Rijksmuseum
Louvre Abu Dhabi
Vizcaya
Futurium
London Museum
ACMI

and more.

Cutting Through the Noise: What’s Working NOW to Spur Donor Engagement

Brianne Roth — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 19:01:02 +0000

Join fundraising master trainer, Chad Barger, ACFRE, ACNP, for a workshop focused on proven ways to capture donor attention. We’ll look at the challenge of cutting through the noise in today’s daily communication onslaught and the importance of donor retention. Attendees will learn simple, actionable steps that they can take to boost donor engagement at their organization. Examples will be shared of creative ways that real life nonprofit organizations identified, cultivated, solicited and stewarded their donors in creative ways (including some that had no budget for doing so).

Chad Barger helps nonprofit professionals fundraise more efficiently and effectively. He is the chief strategist and owner of the firm Productive Fundraising, which focuses on bringing actionable, research-based fundraising tactics to small and mid-sized non-profits. He is a top-rated conference speaker and webinar presenter as well as a master trainer of nonprofit boards that “don’t want to fundraise.” He teaches fundraising at both Temple University and Messiah University and is one of only 117 fundraisers in the world to achieve the Advanced Certified Fund Raising Executive (ACFRE) credential. Chad is also a strategic advisor and coach to many non-profit fundraisers, executive directors and board members

Future Chat: Managing Digital Risk

Rachel Lee — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:18:54 +0000

Your museum has embraced the digital world. Digitized collections, an asset management system, ticketing, customer relations system, volunteer and event management, and other solutions to the myriad of business requirements needed to run a museum. Congratulations! Now, how will you sustain this work in the long term? Digital assets are inherently unstable, requiring time and attention to remain readable and usable. “Free” platforms and tools can change overnight in ways that harm museum users. Maintaining and upgrading digital systems is expensive, and while grant funding might pay for the purchase of an application, support for ongoing operational expenses is hard to come by.

Join CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Nik Honeysett, Director and CEO of the Balboa Park Online Collaborative, to explore how museums can plan and budget for digital sustainability, and ward off Vint Cerf’s prophesied “digital dark age.”

After the chat between Elizabeth and Nik, participants will join breakout groups to discuss the implications for museums and share information and reflections, then come back together with everyone to share their thoughts and ideas.

General portions of this Future Chat will be recorded. Breakout discussions will not be recorded and are only available to live participants.

It is free to register!

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This is the fourth in our Future Chat series from the Center for the Future of Museums.

Expanding Queer Narratives in Exhibitions: The Importance of Being Furnished

Rachel Lee — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:16:08 +0000

Join this conversation hosted by the American Alliance of Museums LGBTQ+ Community.

Throughout history, amid societal repression, queer individuals found creative ways to express themselves through art, literature, fashion, and even the design of their own homes. Join R. Tripp Evans, Professor of Art History at Wheaton College, and Ken Turino, Senior Search Consultant at Museum Search & Reference, for a tour of the homes, lives, and histories of four New England bachelors whose residences defined American style and interior design in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The presentation begins with an overview of the path these sites took to incorporate queer stories into their museums. Then Evans’ will discuss how his book and its associated exhibition, “The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home,” explores how these four influential men expressed their personal identities through interior design. The exhibition was on display from June to October 2024 at the Eustis Estate in Milton, MA.

Activating Environmental Care and Strength at Museums and Historic Sites

Brianne Roth — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:38:42 +0000

The American Association for State and Local History is hosting a virtual summit this month about the environment and museums and historic sites. Join the summit to learn how to make your museum more sustainable, how to interpret and educate about the environment, how to prepare your organization for a disaster, how to communicate about the climate and the environment, and more. Join us for two half-days on January 28 – 29.

Data for an Uncertain Future

Natanya Khashan — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:13:35 +0000

In these uncertain times, making decisions on data, not assumptions, is more important than ever. Learn how the Annual Survey of Museum-Goers can help your museum make more informed decisions by understanding visitation patterns, visitor values and attitudes, and assessing impact.

This free webinar will:

Include an overview of the data from the 2024 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers.
Share how the Annual Survey of Museum-Goers works.
Explore how the reports can inform decision-making processes.
Help museum leaders and staff navigate uncertain times and increased polarization in communities.
Understand the shared values that make museums critical to communities and individuals.

About the presenter

Susie Wilkening has over 25 years of experience in museums, including nearly 20 years leading custom projects for museums as well as fielding groundbreaking national research on the role of museums in American society. As principal of Wilkening Consulting, she provides research leadership for the Annual Survey of Museum-Goers, She is the primary author of most of the infographics Data Stories, which share research findings with the museum field. Additionally, she is the author of Audiences and Inclusion: A Primer for Cultivating More Inclusive Attitudes Among the Public and is the primary author of Life Stages of the Museum Visitor. Susie is a go-to expert on museums for the media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, NPR, and others. Susie earned a BS in History, Technology, and Society from Georgia Tech and an MA from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture at the University of Delaware. She resides in Seattle, and her husband and curious children often accompany her as she travels to various museums and historic sites.