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The American Association of Museums (AAM) is a non-profit association that has been bringing museums together since its founding in 1906, helping to develop standards and best practices, gathering and sharing knowledge, and providing advocacy on issues of concern to the entire museum community. A non-profit organization ( abbreviated "NPO" also "not-for-profit" is a legally constituted Organization whose objective is to support or engage A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development open to the public which acquires conserves researches communicates and exhibits the Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting AAM is dedicated to ensuring that museums remain a vital part of the American landscape, connecting people with the greatest achievements of the human experience, past, present and future.

AAM is the only organization representing the entire scope of museums and professionals and nonpaid staff who work for and with museums. AAM currently represents more than 15,000 individual museum professionals and volunteers, 3,000 institutions, and 300 corporate members. Individual members span the range of occupations in museums, including directors, curators, registrars, educators, exhibit designers, public relations officers, development officers, security managers, trustees and volunteers. Curator (from Latin cura care means manager overseer. A curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution (e Public relations (PR is the practice of managing the flow of Information between an Organization and its Publics Public relations - often referred A volunteer is someone who works for a community or for the benefit of environment primarily because they choose to do so

Every type of museum is represented by the more than 3,000 institutional members, including art, history, science, military, maritime, and youth museums, as well as public aquariums, zoos, botanical gardens, arboretums, historic sites, and science and technology centers. An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually Visual art. A science museum or a science centre is a Museum devoted primarily to Science. Children's museums are institutions that provide exhibits and programs that stimulate Informal learning experiences for Children. A public aquarium (plural public aquaria or public aquariums) is the aquatic counterpart of a Zoo, housing living aquatic species for viewing A zoological garden, shortened to zoo, is an institution in which living animals are exhibited in captivity Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of Plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes An arboretum is a collection of trees Related collections include a fruticetum (from the Latin frutex, meaning shrub and a viticetum a collection of vines

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