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

The Alliance celebrates, honors, and commemorates the below heritage and awareness months by providing in-depth resource guides for museum professionals. For each guide, explore resources and articles ...

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, ...

This special issue of Museum magazine is geared toward the 2026 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo theme, “The Museum Odyssey.” Learn about educational programs and exhibitions in storied museum spaces ...

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 ...

When the online world is designed to disconnect people from reality, the corrective is not an escape into another abstraction, but a reconnection to place. Touching rice grass (Achnatherum hymenoides) ...

Liminal design is the deliberate treatment of spaces of transition, rest, and functionality (e.g., entrances, corridors, stairways, waiting areas, thresholds) not as residual voids, but as integral ...

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2026) Vol. 45 No. 2 and is reproduced with permission. In the post-COVID era, museum audiences bring more than just curiosity to our ...

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 ...

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