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Recent Posts by Elizabeth Merritt

The Future of the Museum Store

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
This post was originally published in 2014 and is republished with updates. Read more about how to get involved in Museum Store Sunday taking place November 26, 2023! I had the pleasure of …

What Museums Can Learn from Amanda Palmer

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On the way to New Zealand in the spring of 2016, I started reading Amanda Palmer’s The Art of Asking. I thought of it as “me time” reading, and as such it was relegated to snippets of time …

Stone Soup

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
We’ve reached another milestone in the celebration of the Center for the Future of Museum’s first decade of work: the 10th anniversary of the CFM Blog. I think that the first …

Free Copies of TrendsWatch at AAM2018

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This year the Alliance Resource Center will feature an installation celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Center for the Future of Museums. In addition to an installation reviewing our …

Chat with AndyBot at AAM 2018

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
In today’s guest post, Regina McDonald Russian, Digital Accessibility & UX Specialist, and Caroline Record, Creative Technologist at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Innovation …

Futurist Friday: Chatting about Art with IBM Watson

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Museum chatbots are a bit of an obsession of mine right now, as is artificial intelligence, so finding a project that combines these two technologies made my week.  This story in AdWeek …

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