Feeding the Spirit: Museums, Food and Community
Explore how museums can promote food literacy, make their food services healthy and sustainable, and use food to build audience and strengthen community connections. On Oct. 13, 2011, CFM …
Feeding the Spirit Symposium: A Fresh Frame of Reference for Museums-Community-Food
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This guest post is by David R. Curry, a member of the CFM Council. As someone who has refined a set of strategies to survive symposiums and conferences (which all too often seem like …
Catching up with Jeannette Ickovics: 2011 Feeding the Spirit Keynote Speaker
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Can a museum win the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Childhood Obesity Challenge? With your help, maybe yes. Read on. Last winter, Jeannette Ickovics from the Yale School of Public Health …
How a Cookbook Can Help Your Museum Engage with Food
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I hope you’re planning to join us for the free Feeding the Spirit webinar, Friday, Feb. 17, 1:45-5 p.m. (ET). To help you plan your discussions before, during or after the webcast (as well …
Food: A Recipe for Successful Museums
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I hope you’re planning to get together with colleagues to share “Feeding the Spirit: Museums, Food & Community,” CFM’s free webinar on Feb. 17, and explore food literacy, values-based …
Museum Food Services: Serving up our Missions and Eating our Words
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What do visitors eat, when they come to your museum, and what messages do they take away from the experience? We’ve devoted many posts on this blog, over the past year, to celebrating how …
Kickstarting a New Museum: MOFAD
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How can a museum fully integrate food into the whole museum experience—not just the cafeteria or restaurant, but collections, exhibits and programming as well? How would a museum designed, …
At the Phillips, Just Take the Stairs
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Today’s guest video is introduced by Dorothy Kosinski, director of The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. For me, the future of museums has a lot to do with supporting an overall sense …
Projects and Reports
Reports TrendsWatch CFM’s annual TrendsWatch report explores emerging trends of great significance to museums. Museums and Creative Aging: A Healthful Partnership This landmark report …
Introducing Food Day!
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Today’s guest post is by Carolina Sánchez-Hervás, Food Day assistant coordinator at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit watchdog group that advocates for nutrition …
Explore the Future of Food & Museums in Seattle
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Jessica Harris Are you coming to the annual meeting in May? Bring a hearty appetite for some exciting ideas on museums & food! Culinary historian Jessica Harris, CFM’s 2011 lecturer for …
Museums Can Save the World: Tackling Food Deserts
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Take a look at DC’s food deserts: The pink areas are food deserts. In D.C., they are all located in Wards 5, 7 and 8. Image is from DCentric Pretty scary, yes? All those swathes of pink are …