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( R e d i r e c t e d f r o m A m e r i c a n A s s o c i a t i o n o f M u s e u m s )
American non-profit association
The initial AAM headquarters in Washington, D.C. ; it is now headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia
The American Alliance of Museums (AAM ), formerly the American Association of Museums ,[2] non-profit association whose goal is to bring museums together. Founded in 1906, the organization advocates for museums and provides "museum professionals with the resources, knowledge, inspiration, and connections they need to move the field forward."[3]
AAM represents the scope of museums, professionals, and nonpaid staff who work for and with museums. AAM represents more than 25,000 individual museum professionals and volunteers, 4,000 institutions, and 150 corporate members. Individual members include directors, curators , registrars, educators, exhibit designers, public relations officers, development officers, security managers, trustees, and volunteers .
Museums represented by the members include art , history, science , military, maritime, and youth museums , as well as public aquariums , zoos , botanical gardens , arboretums , historic sites, and science and technology centers.
At the 2014 American Alliance of Museums conference, the Institute of Museum and Library Services announced there are now at least 35,000 museums in the US.[4]
History
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An informal meeting was held at the National Museum in Washington, D.C. , on December 21, 1905, for the "purpose of discussing the advisability of endeavoring to establish an association of the museums of America."[5]
1906: Founding
1911: Directory of North and South American museums published
1923: Headquarters established in the tower of the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C.
1925: Code of Ethics for Museum Workers adopted
1925: $2,500 grant from the Carnegie Corporation for research on museum fatigue
1961: Museum directory published (4,600 institutions)
1964: Museums included in the National Arts and Cultural Development Act
1966: National Museum Act passed
1968: Belmont Report recommends developing an accreditation program to help support museums
1969: Accreditation program created on the recommendation of a committee chaired by Holman J. Swinney
1971: The Public Museum of Grand Rapids and fifteen additional museums are the first accredited
1976: New constitution adopted
1980: Museum Assessment Program (MAP) created on the recommendation of a committee chaired by E. Alvin Gearhardt, with MAP supported through a cooperative agreement with IMS, the Institute of Museum Services (later renamed IMLS, the Institute of Museum and Library Services)
2003: Launch of the Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal (NEPIP)[6] [7]
2006: Year of the Museum – 100th anniversary of AAM
2009: First Comprehensive Strategic Plan "The Spark" adopted
2012: Name changed to "American Alliance of Museums"[2]
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Media and Technology (M&T ) is a Professional Network of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). The M&T Network is the AAM link between museums and media technologies. It identifies, examines, and advocates appropriate uses of media technologies in helping museums meet the needs of their public. Membership is limited to institutions or individuals that are members of AAM.[8]
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William M.R. French (1907–1908), director of the Art Institute of Chicago
William Jacob Holland (1908–1909), director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
Frederic A. Lucas (1909–1910), director of the American Museum of Natural History
Frederick J.V. Skiff (1910–1911), director of the Field Museum of Natural History
Edward S. Morse (1911–1912), director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Henry L. Ward (1912–1913), director of the Milwaukee Public Museum
Benjamin Ives Gilman (1913–1914), secretary of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Oliver C. Farrington (1914–1916), curator, Field Museum of Natural History
Henry R. Howland (1916–1918), director of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences
Newton H. Carpenter (1918–1918), executive secretary of the Art Institute of Chicago
William Powell Wilson (1918–1919) director of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum
Paul M. Rea (1919–1921), director of the Charleston Museum
Frederic Allen Whiting (1921–1923), director of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Chauncey J. Hamlin (1923–1929), president of the Buffalo Society of Natural Science and a founder of ICOM
Fiske Kimball (1929–1932), director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Paul J. Sachs (1932–1936), associate director of the Fogg Art Museum , Harvard University
Herbert E. Winlock (1936–1938), director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Clark Wissler (1938–1945), curator of the Department of Anthropology, Yale University
David E. Finley (1945–1949), director of the National Gallery of Art and chairman of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
George Harold Edgell (1949–1951), director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Albert E. Parr (1951–1953), director of the American Museum of Natural History
William M. Milliken (1953–1957), director of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Edward P. Alexander (1957–1960), vice president for interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Froelich G. Rainey (1960–1963), director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania
Charles Van Ravenswaay (1963–1966), director of the Missouri Historical Society
Charles Parkhurst (1966–1968), director of the Baltimore Museum of Art
William C. Steere (1968–1970), president, the New York Botanical Garden
James M. Brown III (1970–1972), director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Charles E. Buckley (1972–1974), director of the Saint Louis Art Museum
Joseph M. Chamberlain (1974–75), director and president of Adler Planetarium
Joseph Veach Noble (1975–1978), director of the Museum of the City of New York
M. Kenneth Starr (1978–1980), director of Milwaukee Public Museum
Craig Call Black , director of Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Dan Monroe, director of Portland Art Museum
Robert MacDonald (1985–1988), director of the Museum of the City of New York
W. Richard West (1998–2000), director of the National Museum of the American Indian
Louis Casagrande (2002–2004), director of the Boston Children's Museum
Jeffrey Rudolph (2004–2006), director of the California Science Center
Irene Hirano (2006–2008), director of the Japanese American National Museum
Carl R. Nold (2008–2010), president and chief executive officer of Historic New England
Douglas G. Myers (2010–2012), executive director of San Diego Zoo Global
Meme Omogbai (2012–2014), chief operating officer of the Newark Museum
Kaywin Feldman (2014–2016), director and president of the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Douglas Jones (2016–2018), director of the Florida Museum of Natural History
Kippen de Alba Chu (2018–2020), executive director of Iolani Palace
Chevy Humphrey (2020–2022), president and CEO of the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
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Charles R. Richards (1923–1927), director of Cooper Union
Laurence Vail Coleman (1927–1958)
Joseph Allen Patterson (1958–1967)
Kyran M. McGrath (1968–1975)
Richard McLanathan (1975–1978)
Lawrence L. Reger (1978–1986)
Edward H. Able (1986–2006)
Ford Watson Bell (2007–2015)
Laura L. Lott (2015–present)
See also
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References
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^ "About AAM" . American Alliance of Museums . Retrieved 2023-02-24 .
^ Government doubles official estimate – Institute of Museum and Library Services
^ "Carnegie Museum of Natural History: 1907 American Association of Museums Meeting Identifications" . Archived from the original on 2015-09-08. Retrieved 2015-08-08 .
^ "Nazi Era Provenance" . Archived from the original on 2017-05-21. Retrieved 2017-05-09 .
^ "Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal" . nepip.org .
^ Phyllis Hecht. "Multimedia Awards for Museums: MUSE, A Case Study" (PDF) . Stsci.edu. Retrieved 2013-08-16 .
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