2016 – Page 4 – American Alliance of Museums

A Futuryst Look at the Museum of Tomorrow

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’ve been following the work of Futurist Stuart Candy since the inception of CFM. The Sceptical Futuryst—his blog dedicated to “how we might feel about tomorrow”– is a staple of my scanning feed, and I’ve made good use of The Thing …
Transcripts and Captions for Digital Video

By jmorin

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Transcripts and Captions for Digital Video

By jmorin

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Dream Big: the Alliance in an Age of Scale

By Elizabeth Merritt

I want to share with you the Alliance’s vision for how museums could play a major role in filling the need for high-quality, equitable early childhood education in the US. Back in June I blogged about the MacArthur Foundation’s …
Monday Musing: Well well

By Elizabeth Merritt

To file under Financial Sustainability, subheading “Potential New Income Streams”:I just finished reading an article in Fast Company on the surge in “wellness tourism,” which is now a $563 billion global industry. …
Futurist Friday: Humans Need Not Apply (Even Us Creative Types)

By Elizabeth Merritt

We’re entering an era in which robots are not only building but also driving cars, chatbots are delivering customer service, and artificial intelligence is preparing legal briefs and delivering medical diagnosis.Today’s …
Selling When We Should Be Investing

By Thomas Leischner

When I was a classroom teacher, I assumed that a field trip would never be worth it: not worth the money my school didn’t have, nor the time I didn’t have, nor the learning my students would lose by missing a day of school. This imagined …
Knowing Justice and Peace in Times of Crisis

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today, Kathryn Hill, President & CEO of the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, NC, is sharing her thoughts on her museum’s actions in the wake of the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott and the community unrest that …
Electing to value education within museums

By Sage Morgan Hubbard

I am not going to lie. Like many of us, I am suffering from election anxiety today. As a parent and educator, I see the glaring gaps in our fractured educational system and become frustrated and pessimistic. At the same time, one of the …
Futurist Friday: A Dark View of the Next Urbanism

By Elizabeth Merritt

Military people are professional pessimists. Which I guess is a good thing, since we want them to be prepared for the worst. Back in the 1950s, Herman Kahn (often cited as the father of scenario planning) helped the US envision potential …