Anyone who works at an art museum will be fascinated to learn which critical issues the board and staff at the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) are tackling, including public support, fiscal and environmental sustainability, upholding standards of professional practice and remaining relevant to audiences of the future.
This session will address how museums can make exhibition experiences accessible to everyone through universal design techniques and skills.
Presenters will share their experience in exhibiting and presenting current events and subject matter that has been controversial, such as the recent financial crisis, 9/11 and its aftermath, and the history of marriage at a time when the definition of the term is under debate.
The panel will offer pragmatic suggestions for communicating effectively with decision makers (including funders) at all levels, from school administrators and local politicians to members of Congress.
This session uses two content-heavy exhibitions-in-planning in art museums to discuss creatively balancing curatorial responsibility and the leisure-learner's interest in visual pleasure.
Through the lens of developing two exhibitions on health and the human body, this session chronicles exhibit-specific uses of visitor research and evaluation, from prototyping to focus groups with community members.
This session will explore a number of crises during the first decade of the 21st century, how America has responded, and how to structure an emergency management plan and assemble an emergency management team.
A participatory game will provide insight into involving a generation of digital natives, and the panel will describe their efforts to develop technology-based projects with teenagers.
