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 ...

If museums want to be welcoming and accessible, one of the areas they must consider is neurodiversity. How do the ways we process information and stimuli differ from person to person, and how can we ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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) ...

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, ...

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 ...