A guest post from AMM member Anna Altschwager, Assistant Director at Old World Wisconsin, a 600 acre living museum with the Wisconsin Historical Society. Drawing on a background in Material Culture, Project Management, and Experience Design, she is passionate about the role of storytelling to nurture understanding and critical thinking. […]
Grant award will support a new pilot project that will help small museums access best practices and build capacity in a range of museum technology subjects at no cost The Institute of Museum and Library Services recently announced a National Leadership Grant for Museums award of $259,920 for the Digital […]
We circled back to panelists from the Reopening Plans in Action summer webinar series, to find out how things have been going. Here is a list of their observations and experiences along with pieces of advice for museums at any stage of reopening: Visitors will come, just not as many […]
By Joyce Lee and Patrick Hamilton This year’s 50th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22 arrives in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Addressing this global crisis understandably is everyone’s immediate concern. The months it will take before this contagion runs its course may seem interminable while in the […]
As museums in the Midwest and across the nation respond to the spread of COVID-19 to their communities, we would like to offer an overview of operations strategies we have observed plus a few tips and resources. This post will be updated as new information and/or resources become available. (Last […]
Like many of our peers, our organization offers a searchable job board on our website. Nearly a year ago, we began exploring changes to our job board policy, including the potential for requiring compensation information in all listings. We spent time learning about the current policies and practices of museums […]
Congratulations to this year’s honorees! Best Practices Award: Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN The Heritage Support Grants Program of the Indiana Historical Society addresses the needs of Indiana’s local, county, and regional historical societies, museums, and sites. This grant program works to help these organizations be better stewards of the […]
Museum institutions, whether they be major tourist attractions or small house collections, are part of our knowledge sphere from childhood through adulthood. Museums are viable, and often valuable, community enterprises whose boards are frequently headed by community and business leaders. There are an estimated 35,000 museum institutions in this country. […]
Over the past year, the staff and board of directors of AMM have considered ways in which we can help to advance field-wide efforts to improve diversity, equity, access and inclusion. We would like to share some of the questions we have asked ourselves, as well as the steps we […]
In anticipation of the upcoming conference in Grand Rapids – themed “Changing Expectations” – we asked our colleagues at Grand Rapids Public Museum share how they worked with community partners to create a new museum-based model for a high school. The Grand Rapids Public Museum is a community asset dedicated […]