AAMG News

• Western New Mexico University Museum

  The WNMU is one of our featured Members of the Month. Learn more about their program here: http://www.wnmumuseum.org/ Read More

• Denison College: Denison Museum

  The Denison Museum is one of our featured Members of the Month. Learn more about their program here: http://denisonmuseum.org/ Denison Museum intern Matthew Puracchio '15 affixes numbers to the Kuna Mola collection as part of the IMLS grant to inventory… Read More

• University of Minnesota: Goldstein Museum of Design

  The Goldstein Museum of Design is one of our featured Members of the Month. Learn more about their program here: http://goldstein.design.umn.edu/ Read More

• Drexel University: Leonard Pearlstein Gallery

  The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery is one of our featured Members of the Month. Learn more about their program here: http://www.drexel.edu/westphal/resources/LeonardPearlsteinGallery/ Read More

• Wesleyan University: Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery

  The Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery is one of our featured Members of the Month. Learn more about their program here: http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/galleries/zilkha-exhibition/index.html Read More

• AAMG condemns the actions of Randolph College

  By now many of you are aware of the latest development with Randolph College's sale of its George Bellows painting Men of the Docks to the National Gallery in London (see http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/arts/design/a-bellows-painting-moves-from-virginia-to-london.html). Although much has changed in the cultural, political,… Read More

• Campus Art Museums in the 21st Century: A Conversation

  AAMG and our members actively promote thoughtful investigation into and dialogue about the possible and desirable roles of the campus art museum in the twenty-first century. The Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago and its partners facilitated just… Read More

• AAMG Statement Regarding Stieglitz Collection at Fisk University

  The Association of Academic Museums and Galleries is deeply disappointed in the recent ruling by the Tennessee Appeals Court, of November 29, 2011, that allows Fisk University to sell fifty percent of its Stieglitz collection to the Crystal Bridges Museum… Read More

• AAM Accreditation Commission Announces New Policy On Museum Parent Organization Support

  New Statement of Support Language Designed to Protect College Museums and Their Collections Washington, DC - Responding to increasing instances of threats to the sanctity of university museums and their collections, the American Association of Museums's (AAM) Accreditation Commission --… Read More

• AAMG responds to potential sale of Iowa’s Pollock Painting

  February 18, 2011 David W. Miles, President Board of Regents, State of Iowa 11260 Aurora Avenue Urbandale, IA 50322 Dear President Miles, I am writing to you in my capacity as a university museum director of thirty-years and as president… Read More

• AAMG joins other associations in response to the turmoil in Egypt

  New York, NY-February 2, 2011- Recent news reports about the turmoil in Egypt have varyingly suggested that some damage was done to works of ancient art in Egyptian museums-and that those who attempted to do harm were stopped. Just as… Read More

• A Statement from the Board of the AAMG concerning Censorship

  Undertaking research, questioning what conventional thought considers unquestionable, and exploring new ideas and alternative views of human experience and the world around us are foundational to the role of academic museums and galleries. These responsibilities parallel, on several points, the… Read More