General Announcement

• Survey Results: Academic Museum Reporting Structures

  Dear colleagues, Thank you for taking time to participate in our Survey Monkey poll last week. An overwhelming number participated (265), and I'm pleased to share a strong dataset with all of you. The majority of us report to a… Read More

• Please take 10 seconds: who does your museum report to? (survey)

  Dear colleagues, Please help us capture a more complete picture of our current academic museum/gallery reporting structures. Since we've had a very active conversation on the listserv, perhaps we can gain better data through this simple survey. Please consider participating--it… Read More

• AAMC Announces AAMC Foundation Engagement Program for International Curators

  Applications are now open for the second term of the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Foundation Engagement Program for International Curators, made possible by major support from the Terra Foundation for American Art. The two-year Program will accept three non-US… Read More

• New Groups.io Listserv Email Addresses

  AAMG@groups.io NEW Email Addresses Post: AAMG@groups.io Subscribe: AAMG+subscribe@groups.io Unsubscribe: AAMG+unsubscribe@groups.io Group Owner: AAMG+owner@groups.io Help: AAMG+help@groups.io Website: https://groups.io/g/AAMG Read More

• New AAMG-L Listserv Announced

  Dear academic museum colleagues, We're pleased to announce the transition of our listserv from Yahoo! Groups to Groups.io. Please rest assured that the automated messages that many of you are receiving is legitimate. We will be updating our website and… Read More

• TEACH VISUAL: find and share object-based learning assignments

  Project Summary Given that the fundamental role of academic art museums/galleries is to teach from objects, three GLCA academic museums/galleries collaborated to create a centralized web repository and portal that shares best practices for object-based learning in a higher education,… Read More

• 2018 Levitt AMP [Your City] Grant Awards

  The Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation announces an exciting grant opportunity serving small to mid-sized towns and cities across the country. Up to 15 grantees will be awarded $25K each in matching funds to produce their own Levitt AMP [Your… Read More

• 2017 National Museum Salary Survey Now Available

  The American Alliance of Museums has released the 2017 National Museum Salary Survey in partnership with the six regional museum associations (Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, Mountain-Plains, New England, Southeastern, and Western) and five state museum associations (California, Florida, New York, Texas, and… Read More

• New Resources Summarize IMLS Support for Museums and Libraries in Each State

  Washington, DC - The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) released reports with detailed views of IMLS funding for the past six years (FY 2011 through FY 2016) for every state across the nation and the District of Columbia.… Read More

• Meet John Versluis: AAMG’s President

  John Versluis is the Dean of the Texas Heritage Museum at Hill College, Hillsboro, Texas and has spearheaded the museum since 2005. John oversees three separate divisions: the Texas Heritage Museum Galleries & Collection, the Historical Research Center, and the… Read More

• New AAMG Best Practices document now online

  Thanks to generous support from the Kress Foundation, AAMG is pleased to announce its newly revised best practices document for academic museums and galleries. The document, along with appendices, can be found on our website: https://www.aamg-us.org/wp/best-practices/ Below is a brief… Read More

• Call for Applications: Smithsonian PREP 2018

    CALL for APPLICATIONS 2018 PREP  The Smithsonian Institution and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Announce Second Year of Exchanges under the German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program (PREP) for Museum Professionals, 2017-2019 3rd Exchange in Los Angeles, February 26-March 2,… Read More