The American Alliance of Museums looks forward to working with the newly elected Congress to increase federal funding for ...

What do your visitors value—and what keeps them coming back? Every year, AAM and Wilkening Consulting set out to answer this ...

For decades, the traditional museum model was simple: charge an entry fee, offer an annual membership packed with transactional perks, and rely on major donors to bridge the financial gap. Today, ...

Brandy Dillingham joined AAM as Director of Advocacy in 2024, managing AAM’s overall grassroots and advocate-mobilization strategy and campaigns. Brandy is a policy and advocacy professional with over ...

The Fall 2026 issue of Exhibition explores how museums can cut through the noise with thoughtful design, sensory awareness, and exhibitions that invite reflection, connection, and joy. Exhibition is ...

On a Tuesday morning in July, older adults from across Southcentral Alaska danced to feel-good songs, including Bobby Darin’s “Splish Splash” and Carole King’s “I Feel the Earth Move,” from the ...

In a guest post here on the blog earlier this week, Nina Pelaez and Alyssa Greenberg reported on the self-organized convening of Museum Workers Speak at the AAM annual meeting in Atlanta a few weeks ...

With rising sea levels and stronger floods and hurricane seasons, priceless cultural sites and museum collections around the world are increasingly under threat from severe weather events and the ...

This week’s CFM guest blogger is Robert Janes, editor-in-chief of Museum Management and Curatorship, Chair of the Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley and former president and CEO of the Glenbow ...

This article originally appeared in the November/December 2010 edition of Museum magazine. TWENTY YEARS AGO the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act was passed by Congress, and with ...