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Museums and the Living Wage: How Filoli Developed a Bold Pay Equity Initiative

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By Kara Newport
Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Each year CFM’s TrendsWatch brings attention to bear on critical issues for museums, challenging our sector to think about how we might adapt to a rapidly changing environment. Examining a …

The Best Museum Bathrooms, According to Museum People

By Joseph O'Neill
Category: Alliance Blog
When you think of all the memorable, thoughtfully designed spaces in museums, the bathrooms may not be the first thing that come to mind. They aren’t usually considered the feather in an …

A New Site of Conscience: Sing Sing Prison Museum

By Brent D. Glass
Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Five years ago, CFM’s TrendsWatch report examined how museums are helping society confront the need for criminal justice reform. Historic sites play an important role in this work, with …

Museums Discover Impact Investing

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By Laura Callanan
Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
CFM first flagged impact investing as a trend of significance to museums in 2013, inspired by a talk Seth Miller gave at SXSW in which he declared that “every time you spend a dollar, you …

Transferring Trust: An Art-Based Public Health Campaign Reveals the Key to Community Resilience

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By Vida Mikalcius
Category: Alliance Blog
It’s no secret that the pandemic hit certain communities harder than others. Disasters—be they environmental, social, or public-health-related—often have this effect, exposing inequity both …

‘Relationships Don’t Have an End Goal’: A Q&A with the Burke Museum’s Decolonization & DEAI Team

By Joseph O'Neill
Category: Alliance Blog
Some of the newest, and most defining, jobs in the current era of museums are those focusing on decolonization and diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion. In recent years, as more …

Nurturing a People-Centered Work Culture

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By Molly Giordano
Category: Alliance Blog
In March 2020, I gave birth to my second child, just two months after becoming the Delaware Art Museum’s Interim Executive Director and days into the COVID-19 lockdown. In those early …

Speak the Truth and Point to Hope: An #AAM2022 Keynote by Sandra Jackson-Dumont

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By American Alliance of Museums
Category: Alliance Blog
Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Director & CEO of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, opened the Organizational Culture focus area of the 2022 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo with her keynote …
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