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Join us at the American Association of Museums annual meeting in Minneapolis and participate in our conversation about the future of museum ethics.

The third round of the Delphi Forecasting Exercise, a joint project of the Center for the Future of Museums and the Institute of Museum Ethics, is beginning this week and you are welcome to join in. In Rounds One and Two, we identified six issues to focus upon and in this round, we hope to learn [...]

Welcome to the newly updated website for the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University.  The site has been redesigned to provide a more robust resource for those seeking information about ethical issues for museums.  Among the many changes you will find A new, regularly updated news feed to which you can subscribe separately; Lists of [...]

Lobbying and Museum Ethics:  A Surprisingly Good Marriage  Bonnie Wilson For many, the word “lobbyist” does not carry with it particularly ethical connotations.  The image that might come most quickly to mind is of a slick Washington wheeler-dealer, whose shady arrangements with big corporations and government officials result in legislative decisions that are injurious to the general [...]