AAM Statement on the Independence of the Smithsonian and America’s Museums

AAM Statement on the Independence of the Smithsonian and America’s Museums, 20 July 2026 The American Alliance of Museums condemns the Administration’s continued attacks on the Smithsonian Institution and the museum professionals responsible for preserving, researching, and interpreting our nation’s history, art, science, and culture. These attacks are not confined to Washington. As our nation’s […]
AAM launches CFM Trendswatch 2025

– annual forecast
AAM Blog Imaginative Learning in Museums #3

Imagination Outside the Museum: 2024 Data Story
Elizabeth Merritt views 2024 & CFM engage 2025

AAM Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Imaginative Learning in Museums – 2024 AAM

Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Data Story
AAM Blog on contending with a divided public

& a new era of culture wars
What is Mastodon & why should you care?

‘- Elizabeth Merritt’s view
AAM on measuring a sense of belonging

to address systematic & social exclusion
AAM TrendsWatch report 2021

Navigating a Disrupted Future
AAM Centre for the Future of Museums

How to get ready to open the doors