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Future Fiction Challenge Winner!

Category: Museum Magazine
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 …

Announcing Education Future Fiction Challenge Winners

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
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 …

Future Fiction Friday

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Hi, this is Sylvea. I wanted to share a story from our Future Fiction Challenge…this one, by Sarah Jesse, is entitled “World Museum and Library Database.” Check out the other entries here …

Winners Announced for Alliance’s Education “Future Fiction” Challenge

Category: Press Release
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 …

Announcing a CFM Future Fiction Challenge: Imagine the Future of P-12 Education

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
In January CFM will launch an education “Future Fiction” challenge.This challenge will invite everyone—including educators, museum professionals, futurists, parents and community members—to …

Future Friday Fiction!: The Wax

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
This week, our Future Friday Fiction work is by Joe Tankersley, a futurist. His story is set in New Orleans and imagines a future where a VR enhanced music program is developed by  a …

Future Fiction Friday: It began with the bees.

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Hi, this is Sylvea. I wanted to share a story from our Future Fiction Challenge…this one, by Lisa Alleman, an educator at Lakewood Historical Society in Lakewood, OH. Check out the other …

How to Enter the CFM Education Future Fiction Challenge: It’s Open!!!

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Hi—Sylvea here. I’m excited to announce the launch of CFM’s “Future Fiction” project, a national challenge in which we invite museum professionals, educators, futurists and community …

Questions about the Future of Learning and Education

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
“What if we said to children, ‘You can learn however you want, wherever you want to, with whom ever you want to?’” –education activist Nikhil Goyal “Don’t try to fix the students, fix …

Futurist Friday: Stories for a Brighter Future

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Yesterday I ran over and picked up my copy of the new science fiction anthology Hieroglyph from the independent bookstore Politics & Prose. (Short run–it’s only about a mile …

ISO Stories about the Future of Voluntary Repatriation, Restitution, and Reparations 

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
From the digital desk of Elizabeth Merritt, Vice President, Strategic Foresight and Founding Director, Center for the Future of Museums: Museum people are natural storytellers, attuned to …

How to Write the Future

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
On January 19th we will launch our Future Fiction Challenge—I hope you plan to enter, and look forward to reading your story of an educational future in which “museums play a starring …

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