Books in the American Alliance of Museums series

This book explores innovative museum programs across diverse sites. The chapters highlight how museum programming, object-based learning, and site-specific education can impact learning. It is aimed at educators, programing developers, university students, and teachers to illustrate the innovative and engaging programing anyone can do.

This book will help museum educators meet visitors' changing expectations, train and prepare responsive educators, and develop models for the future

This book will help museum educators meet visitors' changing expectations, train and prepare responsive educators, and develop models for the future

This handbook provides a compendium of successful gallery activities to engage the entire tour group in the interpretive process.

Come, Stay, Learn, Play is a practical guide to creating amazing visitor experiences for those on the front-line of museums.

This timely book provides a critical look at one of the staples of museum education programming: the "field trip" for school groups. The K-12 audience is of major importance to museums: not only does reaching students relate directly to the educational mission of museums, but also our institutions rely on the revenue generated by school groups.

This timely book provides a critical look at one of the staples of museum education programming: the "field trip" for school groups. The K-12 audience is of major importance to museums: not only does reaching students relate directly to the educational mission of museums, but also our institutions rely on the revenue generated by school groups.

This book brings the reader up to date on the stories behind the people and events that have transformed America's museums from their beginnings into today's vibrant cultural institutions. Updates include color timelines, material on digital curation, emergent exhibitions about civil rights, immersive museum environments, and more.

In this book, Michael Murawski explores the work of museums as agents of change through inspiring case studies as well as his own honest, personal experiences as a museum educator, offering effective strategies for museums to enact change in their communities and, most importantly, convert talk into action

The Civic Mission of Museums, explores the way in which museums can leverage their collections and their connections within and beyond their communities to serve democracy as a whole.

Organizing a traveling exhibition for the first time or the tenth time? This second edition of On the Road Again covers all you need to know about touring an exhibition to multiple venues. Appropriate for staff at all types of museums, particularly those at small and midsize institutions, this title is a must for every museum bookshelf.

The sixth edition of Museum Registration Methods is a comprehensive guide to registration and collections management of museum collections, from acquisition, use, and deaccessioning.

This book explores innovative museum programs across diverse sites. The chapters highlight how museum programming, object-based learning, and site-specific education can impact learning. It is aimed at educators, programing developers, university students, and teachers to illustrate the innovative and engaging programing anyone can do.

This authoritative guide from the American Alliance of Museums and overseen by a blue-ribbon Editorial Advisory Board is intended for museums and donors alike, on the donation process, current standards and best practices, ethical and legal issues, and IRS updates and valuation considerations.

This authoritative guide from the American Alliance of Museums and overseen by a blue-ribbon Editorial Advisory Board is intended for museums and donors alike, on the donation process, current standards and best practices, ethical and legal issues, and IRS updates and valuation considerations.

Designing for Empathy is a volume of twenty-five essays contributed by multidisciplinary and museum thought leaders, collectively exploring the state of empathy for its design elements that might lead to positive behavior change and paradigm shift towards compassionate worldviews and actions.

This book provides a fresh and practical look on mission statements and strategic thinking. Anderson lays out the importance of mission statements while providing useful examples of vision, values, and other components typically a part of a museum's strategic framework. This book takes the discussion to the present and into the future.

In this edited volume. thought leaders in the museum field contemplate the field's struggles with diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion. For the first time, these watershed essays, keynote addresses, and data are gathered in one resource, so we can learn from recent history and build on these leaders' work in the next decade.

In this edited volume. thought leaders in the museum field contemplate the field's struggles with diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion. For the first time, these watershed essays, keynote addresses, and data are gathered in one resource, so we can learn from recent history and build on these leaders' work in the next decade.

This volume makes the case for the "why" and the "how" of museum partnerships in today's hyper-connected and networked world. It features candid interviews with national museum, philanthropic, and nonprofit leaders and case studies of effective partnerships from museums of different disciplines and sizes.

This revised edition of Things Great and Small is a comprehensive resource for preparing and applying collections management policies. Simmons reviews current ideas and literature on the subject, highlights the issues that collections management policies should address, and explains the pros and cons of choosing some policy options over others.

This is the first comprehensive resource to focus solely on the rights and reproductions guidelines, established standards and emerging best practices at cultural institutions. First published in 2015, the second edition is the first time the Handbook is available in print.

This is the first comprehensive resource to focus solely on the rights and reproductions guidelines, established standards and emerging best practices at cultural institutions. First published in 2015, the second edition is the first time the Handbook is available in print.

Designing for Empathy is a volume of twenty-five essays contributed by multidisciplinary and museum thought leaders, collectively exploring the state of empathy for its design elements that might lead to positive behavior change and paradigm shift towards compassionate worldviews and actions.