| Registration for Museums Advocacy Day 2009 Is Now Open! | | AAM is pleased to invite you to join other museum advocates and professionals from around the country to participate in Museums Advocacy Day on February 23-24, 2009 in Washington, DC. Don’t miss this chance to learn about AAM’s legislative agenda, get advocacy training and visit the offices of your members of Congress. Register online here or Download a registration form and fax it to (202) 289-6578. The headquarters hotel for Museums Advocacy Day is the Washington Marriott, 1221 22nd Street, NW, in Washington, DC. Please call 800-228-9290 or 202-872-1500 and ask for the special American Association of Museums rate ($224 per night). Hotel reservations must be made by January 26, 2009. Registration is FREE (but required) and space is limited, so register today!  | | | Museums, Make Sure Your Numbers Count! | |  Please participate in the 2008 Museum Financial Information Survey.  | | Headlines from the Future: dateline November 4, 2019 | | | The Distributed Museum Mortati documents the growing trend for large museums to set up satellite locations around their metropolitan areas. “Local or community museums, having spent the last six years embracing the social web and building partnerships with large institutions” she reports, “are uniquely positioned to meet the needs of their communities and have a much smaller environmental footprint.” Limits on Assembly The World Health Organization (WHO) and Respiratory Distress Syndrome Relief (ReDSR) issued an urgent joint recommendation that in ReDS zones all social gatherings and public assembly should be limited to group sizes of 12 or fewer. Relevant venues include all workplaces, churches, restaurants, movie theaters, sporting venues and museums.  | | Now Available! Recorded Webinar & Online Resources on-demand | The New Tax Form 990: Why You Should Care In collaboration with the AAM Museum Management Committee (MMC), AAM Information Center and LearningTimes. As un-sexy as it sounds, the new Tax Form 990 has major implications for museums as public institutions! Join this important and timely recorded webinar to get a better grip on what the form means, how to implement it and how to make it work for you.  | |