Web Exclusives are special articles and extras to highlight topics covered in Museum magazine.
Practically Speaking The new Practically Speaking section offers hands-on information to support museum professionals. This includes "Day in the Life," a series of first-hand accounts on how active museum professionals do their jobs.
Articles and Reference
Business Card to Business Plan: Branding Your Museum
Learning Music Licensing
Life Lessons: A Journey in Professional Development
Standards and Best Practices for U.S. Museums: The Nutshell Version
Research Round Up: Field Trips Down, Ignorance Holding Steady, Museum Visits Booming
Confessions of a Peer Reviewer
Diversifying for Your Endowment's Future
Can Museums Allow Online Users to Become Participants?
The Spots Where It Flows: Practicing Civic Engagement
Day in the Life
Collections Manager/NAGPRA Coordinator: Jan Bernstein and Isabel Tovar
Educators: Tracey Beck, Pauline Eversmann and Rosemary T. Krill
Curator: Valarie Kinkade
Director of Collections: Jackie Hoff
Assistant Director and Curator: Ron Potvin
Audio
AAM's ongoing audio clip series features interviews and excerpts that correlate with Museum articles.
What's New
 The latest audio clip highlights for-profit museums, as explored in Senior Editor Leah Arroyo’s article “Sex, Drugs and Pirates” in the November/December issue of Museum. Hear a snippet of her interview with Daniel Gluck, founder and executive director of the Museum of Sex, New York, who talks about his museum’s side of the spectrum.
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Past Audio Clips During a visit to his downtown office, Senior Editor Leah Arroyo got Sen. Charles Grassley talking about his views on museums and other nonprofits for her article "Grassley's Roots" in the September/October issue of Museum.
Susan Bennett, vice president of marketing and deputy director at the Newseum, discusses what went into creating one of the world's most expensive and technologically advanced museums. For more on the Newseum, read Associate Editor Joelle Seligson's profile in the July/August issue of Museum.
James Yasko—Emerging museum professional James Yasko, manager of visitor programs at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, talks about launching a museum career. For more essays from emerging professionals, read "Meet the New Boss: Opening the Door for Emerging Professionals."
Terry Tempest Williams—Author and environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams delivered a keynote address at the 2008 AAM Annual Meeting in Denver. Here is a clip of her conversation with MuseumEditor in Chief Susan Breitkopf.
Michael Chabon—Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon also delivered an address at the 2008 AAM Annual Meeting. In an interview with Museum, he revealed how museums have shaped his work. Digital Museum—Phyllis Hecht and Selma Thomas discuss new technologies in museums, the subject of AAM's online seminar series "The Digital Museum: Transforming the Future Now." History and Families—Camy Clough, senior program manager at the National Museum of American History, discusses how history museums can reach out to 10- to 12-year-olds and Latino families' motivations for attending exhibitions.
Chocolate Cake with Vitamins—Gar Crispell, general manager of American Girl, and Ellen Rosenthal, executive director of Conner Prairie Living History Museum, consider American Girl's concept of "chocolate cake with vitamins."
Leah Arroyo—Museum Senior Editor Leah Arroyo visited Mount Vernon to see whether its revamped setup is more nuts and bolts or bells and whistles.
Phyllis Richman—Former Washington Postrestaurant critic Phyllis Richman talks about her most memorable museum dining experiences. For more on destination dining, read "Check, Please!" and "Curating the Café."
Ford W. Bell—AAM President Ford W. Bell discusses his lifelong connection with museums and how AAM can help museums maintain their powerful influence on our nation's youth.
Museums Made Here For this new AAM initiative, we are collecting stories about your day-to-day victories so that other museum professionals can learn from them. These stories will also help us help all museums as we share them with funders, media and legislators in Washington and in communities across the country. To participate, submit your story on the Museums Made Here webpage.
