Recent Posts by Elizabeth Merritt
“My Primary School is at the Museum…During the Pandemic”
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
One challenge facing communities around the globe is providing safe spaces where children can continue their education as normally as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the UK, …
Open Source Solidarity: Starting a Mutual Aid Fund at Your Museum
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Earlier this month, I wrote about the role self-organized mutual aid groups are playing in our nation’s response to the financial damage inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Today on the …
Mutual Aid in a Time of Crisis
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
The upheavals of 2020 are drawing more attention to a venerable form of community self-help: mutual aid societies. These self-organized support groups arose in the eighteenth century as a …
Chris Newell: First Wabanaki Leader of the Abbe Museum
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Ian Elsner describes Museum Archipelago (@museum_go on Twitter) as “a tiny podcast guiding you through the rocky landscape of museums.” As a devoted follower of the podcast, I was delighted …
“Pay As You Stay” – an alternative pricing model for museums?
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
This year’s TrendsWatch cites buy-ahead pricing as one tool for enhancing revenue and managing attendance. In today’s guest post, Managing Director Tom Schoessler tells us how the Weserburg …
Reinventing Museums: Pandemic Disruption as an Opportunity for Change
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Looking for some good things in a terrible time, people have pointed out that air pollution plummeted as the world locked down, sea turtles are nesting undisturbed, managers are realizing …