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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this series of posts, EdCom’s Trends Committee is taking a deeper look at emerging phenomena identified in the 2020 edition of TrendsWatch from the Center for the Future of Museums. In this post, ...

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 ...

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. If you don’t read the journal, become a member to receive your digital copy of the ...