The message from the American public is clear: museums matter. Americans overwhelmingly value museums as educational, ...

Over more than four decades, Lonnie G. Bunch III has shaped museums and public history at the highest levels, with a career ...

September 8, 2026 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Government Shutdown Averted, Proposed OMB Rule Delayed AAM Speaks Out ...

This post is an advertorial written by an organization that serves the museum field. The views, opinions, and positions ...

This post is an advertorial written by an organization that serves the museum field. The views, opinions, and positions ...

Emily Crowe is the Social Media Specialist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History where she collaborates across the Museum to create scientifically accurate and engaging content for ...

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 intellig… ...

Throughout my thirty years as a museum retail professional, I have often had to explain to others—whether colleagues, friends and family, or complete strangers—how museum stores support their ...

With the current COVID-19 pandemic deeply affecting museums across the world, many museum professionals at big and small museums alike are wondering how they can still connect and communicate with ...

In the January 2018 special issue of Curator: The Museum Journal, several authors explore the issue of ivory and what it means to museums collections today. Here’s a review from the Editor John Fraser ...

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 ...