This paper attempts to study on versatile activities of Amεrican Association of Museums (AAM) as well as Committee on Education (EdCom), which can give us good guidelines to work for the museum communities and to cany out the educational role of museums. It is certain that AAM assists museum staff, boards, and volunteers across the countηI to better serve the public through advocacy, professional education, infol1nation exchange, accreditation, and guidance on cl1nent professional standards of performance. AAM is the only organization representing the entire scope of ml1seums and professionals and nonpaid staff who work for and with musemTIs. FOl1nded in 1906, AAM is dedicated to promoting excellence within the museum community. As the basic period of 2003, AAM holds more than 16,000 members, which include 11,500 individual museum professionals and volunteers, 3,100 institutions, and 1,700 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, trl1stees, and volunteers. Among 3,100 institutional members, there are different types of art, history, science, military and maritime, and youth ml1seums, as well as aquariums, zoos, botanical gardens, arboretums, histOlic sites, and science and technology centers. AAM holds the following committees and councils: AAM Standing Professional Committees (SPCs) The American Association of Museums' 12 Standing Professional Committees represent specific disciplines within the museum community. AAM Council of Regional Associations (CRA) The AAM Council of Region al Associations assists AAM and serves as a source of information in policy deliberations that may have impact beyond AAM’s immediate membership. AAM Professional Interest Committees and Councils (prcs) AAM Professional lnterest Committees/Councils enable groups of individuals that share a common interest or have a common need related to working in the museum field to develop professional associaitons. AAM Council of Affiliates (COA) The AAM Council of Affiliates assists AAM and also serves as a source of information in policy deliberations that may have impact beyond AAM’s immediate membership. AAM/ICOM The United States National Committee of the International Council of Museums, AAM/ICOM is housed within the American Association of Museums but maintains a separate board and membership. Members access a full scope of international information and activities. The American Association of Museums’ 12 Standing Professional Committees represent specific disciplines within the museum community as following: Committee on Audience Research and Evaluation (CARE), Committee on Museum Professional Training (COMPT) , Committee on Education (EdCom), The Curators’ Committee (CurCom), Development and Membership Committee (DAM), Media and Technology Committee (MTC), Museum Management Committee (MMC), National Association of Museum Exhibition (NAME), P.R. and Marketing Committee (PRAM), Registrars Committee (RC-AAM), and Small Museum Administrators' Committee (SMAC). Especially, EdCom among AAM’s 12 Standing Professional Committees (SPCs) is constitllted of museum educators and other museum professionals to advance the p따pose of museums as places of learning, to serve as advocates for alldiences, and to promote professional standards and excellence in the practice of museum education. EdCom focuses on three principal functions accessibility, accountability and advocacy. The basic principles of museum education executed by EdCom are excellence and equity. EdCom guides to carry out the educational role of museums, of which the components of mllseum edllcation ar'e such as: audience, learning, scholarship, interpretation, collaboration, decision, executive manager, volunteer, professional development and leadership.