Annual Meeting

Some Reflections on Museums and Labor at the Annual Meeting

By Elizabeth Merritt

Hi, Nicole here! This year’s CFM demo in the MuseumExpo during the AAM 2016 Annual Meeting was jam-packed with tough thinking and rich engagement on the issues of museums and labor. During the course of the programming from May 26-28, we …
Your Guide to Labor 3.0 at the Annual Meeting

By Elizabeth Merritt

Hi, Nicole here! I’m excited to share what we’ve been up to at CFM around the issue of museums and labor and invite you to join in at this year’s annual meeting. Image credit: R. Black Labor issues continue to be front and center as the …
Your Guide to the Future at the AAM Annual Meeting 2016

By Elizabeth Merritt

It’s so great to be having the annual meeting in DC this year! I look forward to showing you around my home turf and sharing some of local museum treasures during receptions, evening events and offsite programs on Saturday and Sunday …
Peering at the Future of Wearable Tech at AAM 2015

By Elizabeth Merritt

If you joined us for the annual meeting in Atlanta, you may have seen the queue in MuseumExpo for a small gallery plopped down in the midst of the hall. Working the line of folks waiting to don a bright blue, neon orange or distinguished …
The Limits of Neutrality: A Message From The Natural History Museum

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s guest post, from the team at The Natural History Museum (including director Beka Economopoulos), illustrates one of the trends I discuss in TrendsWatch 2015, and touches upon another. In the chapter on “Ethical Everything,” on the …
Building the Future of Education

By Elizabeth Merritt

Last week I dropped a tantalizing hint about the second position planned for the evolving CFM Fellows program, one that will be officially announced at the annual meeting next week. Here’s the unofficial preview: The Ford W. Bell Fellow …
Exploring the Wearable Future, Part II

By Elizabeth Merritt

Exploring the Wearable Future, Part II I hope you enjoyed Tuesday’s preview of the mock Museum of the Future CFM is staging in MuseumExpo at the annual meeting week after next. Neal Stimler, an early adopter of Google Glass, will be …
Exploring the Wearable Future at the Annual Meeting

By Elizabeth Merritt

I started organizing a demonstration of the oh-so-trendy Google Glass right after our 2014 conference (suspecting even then I’d be featuring wearable technology in TrendsWatch 2015). Then in January Google announced that they were halting …
Your Guide to the Future at the Annual Meeting 2015

By Elizabeth Merritt

This is your futurist’s guide to our upcoming conference. There are loads of great sessions, so you will have to make some ruthless choices. Here are a few of my picks, tagged both for their connection to themes I’ve explored in the …
Instigating Social Justice Sessions for AAM 2015

By Elizabeth Merritt

David Fleming, director of the National Museums Liverpool laid the groundwork for the next AAM annual meeting in his “Big Ideas” session at the conference last spring: “when I use the term “social justice,” he said, “I mean two things: …