From Keepers to Catalysts: Museums as Engines of Equitable Tourism
Today, museums are leveraging their authority to actively re-engineer tourism as an equitable, local community benefiting force.From Venice to New Orleans, museums sit at the center of heritage tourism economies where stark racial income disparities and chronic underinvestment in cultural infrastructure persist. Today, museums are leveraging their authority to actively re-engineer tourism as an equitable, local community benefiting force.Join us during AAM 2026 in Philadelphia, for a conversation with international museum leaders and cultural visionaries, including confirmed speakers:Joy Bailey-Bryant — President & Managing Partner, Lord Cultural ResourcesDaniel Hammer — ICOM Board member, President & CEO, The Historic New Orleans CollectionArthur