Penn Museum

"Collections lie at the heart of most museums, so naturally, values regarding the ownership and control of collections are central to museum ethics.

Recent developments at the global, national, and institutional level...suggest we may be at a tipping point regarding those values....to benchmark the progress of our sector...we need data."

—Elizabeth Merritt, Vice President, Strategic Foresight, and Founding Director, Center for the Future of Museums, American Alliance of Museums (AAM)

New on AAM's blog: Soleil Hawley and Kayla Kane from the Penn Cultural Heritage Center at Penn Museum shares how the newly-launched National Survey of Museum Collecting Practices can help inform the future of U.S. museum collecting practices.

The survey is open to any U.S.-based, nonprofit institution that collects or stewards cultural objects and self-identifies as a museum, library, or other collection.

Learn more on the AAM blog: https://bit.ly/4wK2ZAa

To access the survey: https://www.penn.museum/sites/chc/m2a/

Introducing the National Survey of Museum Collecting Practices Collections lie at the heart of most museums, so naturally, values regarding the ownership and control of collections are central to museum ethics. Recent developments at the global, national, and …