Art, Art History & Museum Studies

The association publishes salary surveys, standards and guidelines, data on art museums, reports, job openings, an object registry, and more.

National Park Service Museum Management Program online leaflets on conservation topics.

A portal to resources from three New York City art museum research libraries: The Brooklyn Museum, the Frick Collection, and the Museum of Modern Art. Search their combined library collection catalog, Arcade, and digital collections such as the Frick Digital Image Archive.

Professional organization concerned with the visitor experience in museums and other informal learning settings. The organization publishes the journal, Visitor Studies.

The AAMD Salary Survey is an annual survey of art museum salaries. The 2021 survey has responses from over 200 museums.

A brief paper highlighting gender equity issues in museum hiring and promotion practices, and outlining action steps for addressing them.

Use the IMLS Data Catalog to explore data on libraries, museums, and related organizations, including funding reports and survey results.

This report examines the role of museums and libraries in promoting social wellbeing in communities across the United States.

This survey examines art museum staff diversity through a comprehensive collection of the field’s ethnic, racial, and gender demographics.

This report provides detailed statistics on adults’ patterns of arts participation, based on the 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. It compares rates of arts attendance, art-making, arts consumption via media, and literary reading among various demographic subgroups.

A series of case studies describing strategies for arts organizations seeking to build their audiences. Each case study is in pdf form.