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We get a lot of calls from AIM members about museum insurance, so we know that this is a hot topic for many of our members. Are you paying too much for your insurance premiums or do you struggle to…

Digital interpretation comes in a bewildering array of forms. It also has a confusing number of names; sometimes its multimedia and sometimes it’s interactive or mobile interpretation. It can be …

We are delighted to welcome Montfort Catering Consultants as new AIM Associate Suppliers. Montfort Catering Consultants is an established, innovative and trusted independent catering consult…

Have you got a success story to share? Share your expertise, help your colleagues and raise your profile by contributing to our popular Success Guide series.…

Now in its third year, Museum Shop Sunday celebrates the unique and exciting shops which play such a vital role in helping arts, cultural and heritage attraction…

From the expert witness in the grisly Dr Crippen murder trial, to the inventor of the first electric street tramway and even the man who changed the face of education before dying penniless under t…

We are aware of recent press coverage regarding the reported suspension of Richard Evans, AIM Chair, from his post as Director of Beamish. Whilst it would not be appropriate to comment furth…

If you have recently searched for your museum online, then the chances are that you have seen what Google calls a Knowledge Graph or Knowledge Graph Panel which appears as a block of information ab…

Has your museum been contacted by bogus energy suppliers recently? Here at AIM and the AIM Energy Action Group, we have been receiving an unusually high number of reports of fake calls related to u…

If you are updating your marketing materials at your museum or sourcing new photos for your museum website, it can be easy to accidentally use copyrighted images by mistake. But behind every photog…

Sentiment analysis (or opinion mining) has become a hot-trend topic of market research in the past few years and it can show you what your museum visitors think and feel about their experience at y…

Since its initial launch in 2015, the AIM Quick Guide to ‘Donation Boxes in Museums’ has often been cited by…