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Learning through Play: Exhibition Developers and PreK-12 School Partnerships

By Elizabeth Merritt

CFM’s report Building the Future of Education envisions a future in which museums are integral parts of a distributed network of resources that support all learners. We are continually on the hunt for fragments of that future that …
Capture the Flag: the struggle over identity and representation

By Elizabeth Merritt

#TrendsWatch 2016, artist @GynoStar @BreeNewsome #TakeDownTheFlag Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) on CFM’s Pintere…
Labor 3.0: Museums and Co-working Spaces

By Elizabeth Merritt

Finding a stable business model for museums in the 21st century is going to take more than patching the old income streams. The goals and expectations of government funding and philanthropy are changing, and there’s more competition for …
9/11/2040: A Future Lesson About the Past

By Elizabeth Merritt

Hi, Sylvea here…..as we move into the last couple weeks of our Education Future Fiction Challenge I hope that many of you are still developing your submissions ;-). Not sure where to start? Read some of our Future Fiction Friday posts and …
American Alliance of Museums Announces Publishing Partnership with Rowman & Littlefield

By American Alliance of Museums

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 3, 2016 ARLINGTON, VA–The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has selected Rowman & Littlefield (R&L) as its copublisher. The Alliance has long had a strong book publishing program, featuring textbooks, …
Creating a More Inclusive Museum: Welcoming LGBT Students and Visitors

By Michael Berlucchi & Anne Corso

One of the important and difficult topics I delve into in TrendsWatch 2016 is the interplay of identity, representation, and inclusion. As I explore in the report, American society is finally recognizing that sexual orientation and gender …
TrendsWatch 2016: Identity and the 21st Century Museum

By American Alliance of Museums

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 1, 2016 ARLINGTON, VA–Today the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) released TrendsWatch 2016, an annual report that summarizes museum trends identified through research conducted by the Center for the Future of …
Introducing TrendsWatch 2016

By Elizabeth Merritt

TrendsWatch 2016 is now up on the web! You can download your free PDF copy from the Alliance website. (Print copies will be available later this spring from the AAM Bookstore.) Here are the chapters in this year’s report: Labor 3.0: new …
More than Just a Party: How the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boosted Participation by Young Adults

By Bob Harlow

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2016 issue of the Museum magazine. Many arts organizations face a similar challenge—declining participation by young adults. The National Endowment for the Arts’ 2012 Survey of Public …
Labor 3.0: New Jobs or a Jobless Future?

By Elizabeth Merritt

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2016 issue of the Museum magazine. This article is an excerpt from one chapter of TrendsWatch 2016, the Alliance’s annual deep dive into the future via the Center for the Future of …