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AAM is the only organization representing the entire scope of museums and professionals and nonpaid staff who work for and with museums. AAM currently represents more than 15,000 individual museum professionals and volunteers, 3,000 institutions, and 300 corporate members. Individual members span the range of occupations in museums, including directors, Curator s, registrars, educators, exhibit designers, Public Relations officers, development officers, security managers, trustees and Volunteer s.

Every type of museum is represented by the more than 3,000 institutional members, including Art , history, Science , military, maritime, and Youth Museum s, as well as Public Aquarium s, Zoo s, Botanical Garden s, Arboretum s, historic sites, and science and technology centers.


HISTORY


  • 1906 : Foundation

  • 1911 : Directory of North and South American museums published

  • (offices in the tower of the Smithsonian Castle )

  • 1925 : Code of Ethics for Museum Workers adopted

  • for research on museum fatigue

  • 1961 : Museum directory published (4,600 institutions)


  • passed

  • 1976 : New constitution adopted



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