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Innovations in Relevance: A Q&A with Stephen Reily of Remuseum

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 …

Scrappy Ways to Get Your Museum in the News

For many museums—especially small- or medium-sized institutions where everyone wears multiple hats—a marketing department is a luxury, let alone dedicated media relations staff. For those …

Cultivating the Next Generation of Black Museum Leaders: The AAAM x Howard University Advanced Executive Training

The Association of African American Museums (AAAM) stands as the principal voice of the African American museum movement, providing support, respite, and abundant educational opportunities. …

Reduce Uncertainty, Increase Confidence: How Internal Audit Supports Museums’ Success

We’ve all seen the dreaded headlines: “How many treasures have been stolen from the British Museum?” “Grief and Anger Mingle After Devastating Brazil Museum Fire” “How the Mona Lisa almost …

Botting: Methodology—A 2024 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Data Story

Unfortunately, sometimes malicious web-crawlers comb social media for online surveys, spamming them with fake responses. These fake respondents or “bots” use automated tools to complete …

The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2024

The museum field has emphasized ethics and standards for at least a century—in fact, the need to solidify them was one of the primary reasons for the founding of AAM in 1906. And yet, …

The Most Active Museum Junction Threads of 2024

Thanks to a recent renovation, AAM’s community forum Museum Junction is bigger and better than ever, with a host of new features and a growing list of nearly thirty branch communities …

Twelve Museum Innovations in 2024

Every week, Dispatches from the Center for the Future of Museums gives you an update on how the future is looking, for our world and for our field. In addition to broad signals of social, …

Following the Attendance Numbers: A Q&A with Angie Judge

Every so often, a new museum is announced, its size in the hundreds of thousands of square feet, its cost in the millions, and its interior and exterior spaces imagined in visionary …
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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 …

A Set of Museum Position Descriptions

Category: Human Resources
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Impact of Executive Orders and Pause on Disbursement of Federal Funds

Category: Advocacy Alert
The recent federal funding freeze and Executive Orders are having profound effects on communities, organizations, and museums. We know this brings uncertainty, and we’re here to help …

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