This article originally appeared in the November/December 2010 edition of Museum magazine. TWENTY YEARS AGO the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act was passed by Congress, and with ...

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2010 edition of Museum magazine. A History of Museum Registration In 1881, an important moment occurred in the history of registration. The new U.S.

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 ...

With rising sea levels and stronger floods and hurricane seasons, priceless cultural sites and museum collections around the world are increasingly under threat from severe weather events and the ...

“The worse the world gets, the more I want to be in nature and around art. I will always prioritize those two things, in fact more so. I bought my membership when I didn’t really have disposable ...

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 ...

Federal funding for museums and cultural institutions continues to be under threat, and this is a moment to act together. As part of AAM’s ongoing advocacy to protect and strengthen funding across ...

Professor Carter, alongside a student and colleague, examines hair wreathes from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection in the Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture. Photo by ...

The 2025 Annual National Snapshot of United States Museums survey, conducted by AAM, was fielded in July and August 2025. It tracked key metrics that the Alliance began collecting in June 2020 to ...

Visit the post for more. 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 ...

Adrienne F. Reid, CIC, a seasoned fine arts insurance professional and Senior Vice President at Huntington T. Block, shares insights into sustainable collections care. Environmental sustainability is ...