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Futurist Friday: Seeing the Bigger Picture

By Elizabeth Merritt

You can follow FiveBooks (& their cutemanatee mascot) on Twitter@five_books Today, for your weekly fix of futurism, I recommend you bop over to the Five Books site to read this wonderful interview with Andrew Curry, director of The …
U.S. Department of State, American Alliance of Museums Announce 2015 Museums Connect Grants

By American Alliance of Museums

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 16, 2015 15 Global Partners Create Museum-Based Youth Exchanges Focused on Environmental and Social Change WASHINGTON, DC ─Museums Connect announced seven grants with 15 museum partners for the 2015 cycle, …
The American Alliance of Museums Announces 2015 Museum Reaccreditation

By American Alliance of Museums

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 16, 2015 AAM Accreditation Commission reaccredits 11 museums at June meeting WASHINGTON, DC—The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) announces that 11 museums earned reaccreditation at the June 15-16, 2015 meeting …
Wearable Technology in the Body Metrics Exhibition

By Elizabeth Merritt

In TrendsWatch 2015 I cited The Tech Museum of Innovation for their creative exhibition on wearables called Body Metrics. We are pleased to bring you an update on the exhibition from Romie Littrell, Curator / Project Director – …
Stitching Together Open Collections Data

By Elizabeth Merritt

In TrendsWatch 2015 I cited last year’s CitStitch Hackathon as an example of natural history museums collaborating with the public to create open datasets about collections. So I was super happy to open an email from Robert Guralnick, …
Monday Musing: Field Trips & Videoconferencing

By Elizabeth Merritt

Monday musings are usually my way of sharing “brain blorts”: brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently, both to help clarify my thinking an in the hopes of generating discussion and response. I give …
Futurist Friday: the Future of Work, and Happinesss

By Elizabeth Merritt

In a recent article in the Atlantic, Derek Thompson refers to work as the “unofficial religion of America.” Thompson is the latest in a long lineage of prognosticators envisioning a future in which most people don’t have …
Excellence On A Small Scale

By Ann Fortescue

What does excellence at a small museum look like? My experience moving from a large history museum, with a full-time staff of 77 and an annual budget of $9.3 million, to a small art museum with a full-time staff of three and an annual …
Exploding the Four Walls: Museums Face the Prospects and Perils of Digital Learning

By Jeff Levine

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2015 edition of Museum magazine. On May 30, 1899, a struggling young inventor wrote the Smithsonian Institution asking for help: “I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I …
Nine Effective Strategies of Audience Building

By Lucas Held, Anne Bergeron and Beth Tuttle

Lucas Held, Anne Bergeron and Beth Tuttle summarize The Wallace Foundation report, The Road to Results: Effective Practices for Building Arts Audiences, by Bob Harlow (2014, The Wallace Foundation), and Magnetic: The Art and Science of …