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Explore How Museums Can Rebuild Public Trust
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Would you like to explore how museums can use their superpower of trust? This new video and discussion guide about “Truth, Trust, and Fake News”—the first chapter in CFM’s TrendsWatch …
These Museums Helped Welcome Immigrants and Refugees to their Community, and Yours Can Too!
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Community Engagement & Impact
Welcoming America’s annual Welcoming Week enlists organizations around the country to welcome new immigrants and refugees into their new communities. This year, AAM is a national partner of …
2019 Award Winner for Innovation in Museum Education: Vizcaya’s Urban Farming School Program
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Education & Interpretation
The EdCom Award for Innovation in Museum Education recognizes, encourages, and celebrates new, creative ways of engaging with audiences. Vizcaya Museum and Gardens‘ Urban Farming …
Unlocking the Neuroscience of Visitor Experience
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Visitor Experience
The act of understanding is fundamental to the museum experience. In visiting a museum, we come to understand the objects placed before us, along with the stories of their human pasts. So …
Opportunities for Museums to Lead for the Future of Learning
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
When the Alliance launched the Center of the Future of Museums a decade ago, museum people told us loud and clear that they wanted us to explore the future of education as part of our work. …
Museopunks Episode 37: Experience doesn’t pay the rent
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Human Resources
Unpaid internships are commonplace in the museum world, supported by a culture that suggests “experience” and the chance to get “a foot in the door” are worth the sacrifice of time and lost …
Building a Future of Social Justice
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, I came across a picture (above) of a futurist installation by LA street artist Plastic Jesus. This bit of immersive fiction warned of a future …
Every Museum Has a Story to Tell: Invite Congress to Visit Your Museum
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Advocacy
Who: Museums and elected officials around the country! What: Annual Invite Congress to Visit Your Museum week. When: August 12-16, or whenever your elected officials and staff can make it. …
