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2024 Annual National Snapshot of United States Museums

About the Report The 2024 Annual National Snapshot of United States Museums survey, conducted by AAM and Wilkening Consulting, was fielded in August 2024. It tracked key metrics the …

The Next Horizon

Collections lie at the heart of most museums, so naturally, values regarding the ownership and control of collections are central to museum ethics. In 2023, AAM launched the Voluntary …

Livable Communities for Our Elders

This is an excerpt from TrendsWatch: Museums as Community Infrastructure. The full report is available as a free PDF download. “Ageism is a prejudice against our own future selves and takes …

Education for Our Children

This is an excerpt from TrendsWatch: Museums as Community Infrastructure. The full report is available as a free PDF download. “Given the challenges we face, education doesn’t need to be …

TrendsWatch: Navigating a Volatile Future

Welcome to TrendsWatch, CFM’s annual forecasting report. This year the report explores volatility—strategic foresight parlance for the speed of change. That speed has been increasing …

Report: Cultural Institutions’ 2022-2023 Investment Policies, Practices, & Performance

Download the report Introduction In 2023, the American Alliance of Museums, Fiducient Advisors, and The Morton Arboretum conducted a national investment benchmarking study aimed at …

The Next Horizon of Museum Practice: Voluntary Repatriation, Restitution, and Reparations

Collections lie at the heart of most museums, so naturally values regarding the ownership and control of collections are central to museum ethics. Recent developments at the global, …

Say Cheese! A Candid Snapshot of the Museum Sector

Last month AAM released the results of our fifth “snapshot” survey of the field. These snapshots, which started as a means of checking in on museums and museum workers during COVID …

2023 Annual National Snapshot of United States Museums

The 2023 Annual National Snapshot of United States Museums survey, conducted by AAM and Wilkening Consulting, was fielded March-April, 2023. Over 300 museum directors responded to this AAM …

Responsibility

As the pandemic struck, like Alice in Wonderland or Dorothy in Oz, museum workers found themselves cast into a completely new reality. Lengthy closures and stay-at-home orders unmoored us …
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Updates on IMLS and the President’s Budget

Advocacy Alert – May 2, 2025 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Lawsuit Updates IMLS Lawsuit: Yesterday, a judge granted a Temporary Restraining Order to prevent the Trump …

Strategies for Building Community: Lessons from the “Gallery Guide Guide”

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Hi! We are Sydney Skelton Simon, the Bradley Associate Curator of Academic Affairs, and Molleen Theodore, the Jane and Gerald Katcher Curator of Programs, at the Yale University Art Gallery …

3 Considerations for Improving Museum Displays Without Compromising Preservation

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This post is an advertorial written by an organization that serves the museum field. The views, opinions, and positions expressed by the authors and those providing comments are theirs …

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