As the United States experiences a change in government while concurrently seeing a pandemic decimate the livelihoods of people working in the arts, we have a grand opportunity to influence arts and museum policy.

For the past decade, the American Alliance of Museum’s Museum Advocacy Day has provided training and support for people to meet face-to-face (erm, zoom-to-zoom?) with members of Congress and advocate for museums’ needs. This year, Museum Advocacy Day is on February 22nd and 23rd.

We are delighted to announce that on February 16th, AAM’s Museum Advocacy team will be joining r/MuseumPros to host an AMA session!

The link to post questions is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumPros/comments/liexds/askmeanything_about_government_advocacy_with_aam/

You will need a free Reddit account if you want to post a question, but just viewing the event will not require an account.

This is your opportunity to inquire about:

Getting government representatives to visit your museum

Learning about arts policy

Advocating as a student, when you don’t have a museum job just yet

Advocating as a person who has been laid off or furloughed

Encouraging advocacy in your community

What language is best used when making an economic argument

Leveraging your museum in a small town, large city, or other nation

Anything else advocacy-related that you can imagine…!

The post will open on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15 for our subscribers to pose questions there and will be open through TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 when questions will be answered. You can either ask questions here and the mods will repost them in next week’s thread OR save your questions until the 15th.

-Sincerely the MuseumPros Moderation Team. 

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