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Futurist Friday: Sheep View

By Elizabeth Merritt

This past April Durita Dahl Andreassen of Visit Faroe Islands launched a social media campaign to get Google to send it’s Street View cameras to the Islands (even though they don’t actually have many, you know, roads). Her …
Failing Forward: On Web Accessibility

By Robert Stein

So we’re a few weeks into the launch of our new Alliance Labs initiative here at AAM and already we’re learning a lot. In fact, the work of bringing our team together to launch this effort at all helped us to learn many different things. …
Building the Future of Education

By Cecelia Walls

The Building the Future of Education report summarizes the content and shares ideas coming out of a convening organized in September, 2013 by the Alliance and The Henry Ford. Essays by educators, students, researchers, and reformers …
Future Fiction Challenge Winner!

By Keely Sarr

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2016 issue of Museum magazine. Albert Camus once said, “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.” Good futurist fiction tells the truth about something that hasn’t …
Supporting Learning in Museum Makerspaces: A National Framework

By Peter Wardrip

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2016 issue of Museum magazine. Identifying the elements that create and foster conditions for optimal learning. Makerspaces and maker-based learning experiences are settings and …
What YouTube Can Do for Museums

By Winifred Kehl

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2016 issue of Museum magazine. How museums can use YouTube to engage visitors and extend their reach. “YouTube is the new TV”—or so seemingly everyone tells me at VidCon, the annual …
Rise and Shine: Early Morning Programs for People With Autism

By Greg Stevens

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2016 issue of Museum magazine. For people with autism and other sensory processing disorders (SPDs), visiting museums and other public sites can be a difficult experience. A variety …
Arresting Patterns

By Elizabeth Merritt

Last week we featured an essay by Sean Kelley on how the Eastern State Penitentiary has chosen to move away from neutrality and take a position on mass incarceration. Today curatorial and research assistant Brittany Webb shares how another …
Exhibit A

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’m taking advantage of the late summer lull in blogging to share my personal favorite from last spring’s Future Fiction Challenge, a story submitted by Ken Eklund. It nails so many of the things that make for compelling future …
Futurist Friday: Curating the Hereafter

By Elizabeth Merritt

I have a special place in my heart for museums that help their audiences explore the future. The latest addition to my collection: the Hereafter Institute, a fictitious company created by Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, recipient of a 201 LACMA …