Recent Posts by Elizabeth Merritt
Join Me for a New Series to Chat About the Future
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Starting in August, AAM is piloting Future Chats, a series of short dives into some of the latest news. These one hour, online sessions will be dedicated to informal, interactive …
Livable Communities for Our Elders
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This is an excerpt from TrendsWatch: Museums as Community Infrastructure. The full report is available as a free PDF download. “Ageism is a prejudice against our own future selves and takes …
Education for Our Children
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This is an excerpt from TrendsWatch: Museums as Community Infrastructure. The full report is available as a free PDF download. “Given the challenges we face, education doesn’t need to be …
Right-Sizing the World
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This excerpt is adapted from TrendsWatch: Museums as Community Infrastructure. The full report is available as a free PDF download. “I don’t know why people feel unhappy when the curve of a …
Help Pioneer Better Measures of Museum Performance
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
What’s the best way to measure a museum’s success? And by “best,” I mean meaningful and sustainable. “Meaningful” in the form of metrics that will make a community feel it has been well …
Emergency Response in the Face of Disasters
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This is an excerpt from TrendsWatch: Museums as Community Infrastructure. The full report is available as a free PDF download. “There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to …