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American Alliance of Museums Plans Move to Arlington, Virginia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 23, 2015 STATEMENT The Alliance offices to relocate in fall of 2015 in order to increase resources WASHINGTON, DC – The American Alliance of Museums plans to relocate its headquarters to a new Arlington, … -
The Limits of Neutrality: A Message From The Natural History Museum
Today’s guest post, from the team at The Natural History Museum (including director Beka Economopoulos), illustrates one of the trends I discuss in TrendsWatch 2015, and touches upon another. In the chapter on “Ethical Everything,” on the … -
The American Alliance of Museums Announces the Ford W. Bell Fellowship for Museums and K-12 Education
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2015 The new Ford W. Bell Fellow will unite museums to create a brighter future WASHINGTON, DC –Today, the American Alliance of Museums announces the founding of the Ford W. Bell Fellowship for Museums and … -
Building the Future of Education
Last week I dropped a tantalizing hint about the second position planned for the evolving CFM Fellows program, one that will be officially announced at the annual meeting next week. Here’s the unofficial preview: The Ford W. Bell Fellow … -
Exploring the Wearable Future, Part II
Exploring the Wearable Future, Part II I hope you enjoyed Tuesday’s preview of the mock Museum of the Future CFM is staging in MuseumExpo at the annual meeting week after next. Neal Stimler, an early adopter of Google Glass, will be … -
Exploring the Wearable Future at the Annual Meeting
I started organizing a demonstration of the oh-so-trendy Google Glass right after our 2014 conference (suspecting even then I’d be featuring wearable technology in TrendsWatch 2015). Then in January Google announced that they were halting … -
Monday Musing: On Small Dead Things
15 minutes of top-of-my-head thoughts on a story featured in last week’s Dispatches from theFuture of Museums e-newsletter. One of the things that drove me out of graduate school (besides the dismal ROI of remaining for a PhD.) was the … -
Transitions: The Next Era of CFM
You’ve probably heard that the Alliance’s president, Ford Bell, is stepping down after the upcoming annual meeting. While CFM was conceived under our last president, Ed Able, it launched under Ford and (as I write in the next issue of … -
Your Guide to the Future at the Annual Meeting 2015
This is your futurist’s guide to our upcoming conference. There are loads of great sessions, so you will have to make some ruthless choices. Here are a few of my picks, tagged both for their connection to themes I’ve explored in the … -
Monday Musing: Scholarship and Copyright
I’m recommitting to my Monday “musings”–which started as a self-assignment to take no more than 15 minutes to share my thoughts on something I read in the past week. Over time, the musings grew to the length of a …
Year: 2015
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