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- EIN 53-0205889
- (202) 289-1818
- 2451 Crystal Dr Ste 1005 Arlington VA 22202-4804 USA
- www.aam-us.org
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Causes: Arts & Culture, Professional Societies & Associations
Mission: The american alliance of museums (the alliance) is dedicated to promoting excellence within the museum community. The alliance supports museum staff, boards and volunteers across the country in better serving the public. The alliance will support opportunities for sound professional preparation, provide outlets for professional research and publication as well as foster the continued improvement of the museum profession through the development and observance of high standards of ethics. In promoting it's purposes, the alliance uses meetings, reports, papers, discussions, publications, and other media of publicity and communication so as to increase and diffuse knowledge of all matters pertaining to museums and encourage cooperation among museums, museum professionals, museum users, and the general public.
Programs: Meetings and professional education: the alliance's annual meeting & museum expo brings together 5,000 museum professionals from around the world and is the museum field's premier professional development opportunity. The event showcases the best thinking from practitioners and visionaries on the major issues confronting us and the communities we serve. While showcasing the latest museum products and services through numerous professional development programs, the alliance provides a robust calendar of face-to-face and online opportunities designed to help museum colleagues build professional skills, manage their careers, foster communities of practice, share expertise and contribute to common standards and best practices
field-wide services: the alliance serves as the u. S. Accrediting body for museums. As the museum field's mark of distinction, accreditation offers high-profile, peer-based validation of a museum's operations and impact through our core documents verification program. The alliance evaluates a museum's five core policy documents against a set of required elements. The alliance's museum assessment program (map), supported through a cooperative agreement between the institute of museum and library services and the alliance, provides technical assistance to all types of museums to improve operations through self-study and a consultative site visit from a peer. To further the goal of global thinking in our field, the alliance administers the international grant program museums connect, funded by the u. S. Department of state's bureau of educational and cultural affairs, which connects u. S. Museums and community partners with their counterparts abroad. The alliance also plans and convenes meetings with global colleagues from many different museum communities around the world.
membership: the alliance represents museums of all disciplines and sizes, from art museums to historic houses to zoos, from within the us and around the world. The alliance designed its membership programs to serve the diverse needs of museum professionals by allowing them to choose their level of engagement with dues based on their museum's staff size, or they can join on a "pay what you can" basis. Individual members of the alliance have access to nearly two dozen professional networks based on job responsibilities and areas of interest.