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Counterpoint: Whose Harm?
By Adrienne Lalli Hills (Citizen of Wyandotte Nation) The following letter to the AAMI editors was written in response to the Jan 9, 2023 blog post “We Tried This: Reimagining Our Labels.” Dear AAMI editors: As an Interpretive Planner at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art from 2014–2018, I read with interest the series published on…
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We Tried This: Reimagining Our Labels
By Rachel Nicholson, Director, Visitor Engagement and Research at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art We tried to systematically review and rewrite every label in our collection. Did we succeed? No. But we did succeed in something else; we managed to create a useful framework and common language in collaboration with our curatorial colleagues about what…
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AAMI Virtual Session Recap: To Touch or Not to Touch
Written by the Convening Committee: Deb Clearwaters, Alison Crites, Courtney Morano, Melanie Parker, Meagan Rust, Sarah Rasich On Friday, June 5th, AAMI hosted its first ever virtual session centered on in-gallery interpretation in the age of COVID-19. The session, To Touch or Not to Touch, welcomed 56 participants from museums across North America. AAMI would…
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Reflecting on AAMI 2019
A recap of the AAMI 2019 Annual Convening, which took place at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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Virtual Convening: To Touch or Not to Touch?
AAMI will be hosting virtual convenings over the coming months around topics relevant to the Art Museum Interpretation community. Join us for the first in the series. June 5th, 11 am – 12:30 pm EST (TBD) To touch or not to touch? Museums are wrestling with this question among others as they make plans to…
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UPDATE: AAMI & COVID-19: A MESSAGE FROM THE AAMI BOARD
Dear Colleagues, Amidst this COVID19 pandemic, we are thinking of you all during this challenging time for our world and especially in our museum community. Out of consideration for health and safety, we have made the decision to postpone this year’s AAMI Convening, which was scheduled to take place in Richmond, VA June 18-19. We…
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Save the Date: AAMI 2020 in Richmond, VA
Mark your calendars for Join us at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia from June 18-19, 2020 for the Annual Association for Art Museum Interpretation Conference. Registration details will be announced in March.