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Futurist Friday: Five Years of Forecasting

By Elizabeth Merritt

About 4,000 people a year download TrendsWatch—CFM’s annual forecasting report–as a free PDF. But we print a couple thousand physical copies each year as well. Some people prefer to go off-line for their reading, enjoy …
The Distributed Future of Museum Education

By Elizabeth Merritt

Several years ago, in a post about campus art museums, I posed the question “With education increasingly unbundled and distributed, what is the role of museums in creating a sense of place?” In today’s post, Jennifer Wagelie …
Your Guide to Labor 3.0 at the Annual Meeting

By Elizabeth Merritt

Hi, Nicole here! I’m excited to share what we’ve been up to at CFM around the issue of museums and labor and invite you to join in at this year’s annual meeting. Image credit: R. Black Labor issues continue to be front and center as the …
Winners Announced for Alliance’s Education “Future Fiction” Challenge

By American Alliance of Museums

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 7, 2016 Arlington, VA – Today the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) announced the winners of its Education “Future Fiction” Challenge. The challenge, an initiative of AAM’s Center for the Future of Museums, …
Announcing Education Future Fiction Challenge Winners

By Elizabeth Merritt

Hi, Sylvea here… In late January the we invited museum professionals, educators, futurists, education policy advocates, and community allies to contribute their vision of an educational future for the US that places museums at its …
Your Guide to the Future at the AAM Annual Meeting 2016

By Elizabeth Merritt

It’s so great to be having the annual meeting in DC this year! I look forward to showing you around my home turf and sharing some of local museum treasures during receptions, evening events and offsite programs on Saturday and Sunday …
Monday Musing: the Museum as Poison Cabinet

By Elizabeth Merritt

Monday musings are my way of sharing “brain blorts”: brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read (or in this case, heard) recently, both to help clarify my thinking an in the hopes of generating discussion and …
Futurist Friday: Coming this Fall, the First Cyborg Olympics

By Elizabeth Merritt

One of the themes I explore in TrendsWatch 2016 is the blurring boundaries between ability, disability and augmented ability. We are experiencing a surge in “assistive technology” that can compensate for physical impairments …
Finding Your Niche in the Future Learning Ecosystem

By Elizabeth Merritt

Here’s my thesis: “school” needs to be radically revamped to ensure that every kid has a safe, stimulating, supportive learning environment. Note I put “school” in quotes: one big challenge to inventing a new …
Museum Studies Programs & Tools for Creating More Inclusive Curricula

By Gretchen Sorin

The graduates of museum studies programs are overwhelmingly white and female. If we want museums to be staffed by people who reflect the American public, we can broaden our search beyond museum studies program, and we can encourage …