October 2, 2026 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Smithsonian Protection Bill Introduced in Congress AAM Member Week: Advocacy ...

This visual Data Story is based on findings from the 2026 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers, a national survey of American museum ...

The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) endorses The Smithsonian Integrity and Historical Independence Act of 2026, introduced ...

Compete for a coveted Golden Stanchion! Museums have extraordinary reach – and extraordinary trust. More than 850 million ...

Museums are often seen as spaces that showcase and celebrate creativity. But what often goes unnoticed is that museums themselves are dynamic spaces for creativity, where the past and present converge ...

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 ...

AAM’s annual Museum Publications Design Competition recognizes superior execution and ingenuity in the graphic design of museum publications. A panel of graphic designers, museum professionals, and ...

The season for existential crises continued this past month when the International Council of Museums (ICOM) announced that a working group had proposed a new definition for museums and that said ...

Over the course of 2016, ten small museums participated in an AAM pilot project called the Small Museum Accreditation Academy. The Academy, which was developed through a grant from the National ...

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 ...

AAM Members get exclusive access to premium digital content including: Access to more than 1,500 resource listings from the Resource Center Tools, reports, and templates for equipping your work in ...