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Is It Time to Break Your Museum’s Organizational Mold?

By Mark Sundlov
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Over the course of the twentieth century, and into today, museums have witnessed dramatic changes in their organizational and funding environments—some driven from within the museum field, …

Writing Fashion History at the Met, One Dress at a Time

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Museum to return First Nation skulls

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Double Duty: How a historic botanical garden reached a balance in managing its plant and art collections

By Jordyn Melino and Julianna Razryadov

Who are Western museums guarding African artefacts from?

By Christine Mungai, Aljazeera

An ‘Endangered’ Artifact Allows a Small Museum to Better Tell Its Story

By Shiloh Aderhold Holley
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Wikipedia Is Digitally ‘Preserving’ Items Destroyed in the Brazil National Museum Fire

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Collections 2030 – What Future for Museum Collections in the UK?

By Alistair Brown

On Cross Collecting, or Cross-Over Buying

By David Bellingham, Sothebysinstitute

Museums and their Observers Debate the Field’s Deaccessioning Ethics

By Steve Dubb, Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Reinforcement Crew: A Look Back

By Libby Krecek,
LIbby Krecek, Reinforcement Crew, Co-Chair

Māori ancestors repatriated to New Zealand by the Peabody Museum

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A Snoopy license plate delivers more than mere peanuts to California museums

By Phil Kohlmetz
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Category: Advocacy
A special interest license plate is certainly an unconventional way to raise money for museums, and Snoopy’s path to plate-dom was certainly unconventional. But in late 2015, after nearly …

Stone Soup

By Elizabeth Merritt
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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 …

The Power of a Paid Internship: Creating pathways to careers in museums

By Makeba Clay
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Category: Labor
In 2015, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation issued a report on diversity in art museums that reinforced what is obvious to anyone working in or affiliated with the industry: non-Hispanic white …