Throwback Thursday: “myCulture” and crowdsourcing museum content
This Throwback post revisits a theme from CFM’s first forecasting paper. “myCulture” heralded a creative renaissance driven by a generation of young adults who want to loose their creative energies on shared cultural …
Sold out of science: embracing private collectors in natural history museums.
Is there such a thing as déjà prevu—the feeling of seeing something that you intended to write, but haven’t, yet? This feeling swept over me recently when I read a piece by Mark Carnall, curator at the Grant Museum of Zoology and …
Fundamentals of a Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Plan
Examine the required elements of a disaster preparedness and emergency response plan based on national standards, and how this critical document intersects with all aspects of your institution, including collections, security, facilities, …
Developing an Effective Collections Management Policy
Watch this interview-style recorded webinar discussing standards, essential elements, and challenges/successes of developing an effective collections managem…
No Future
The Field Museum of Natural History recently announced that it is cutting its budget by 7%—$5 million from its overall budget of ~$70 million—with $3 million of this coming out of the science departments.The museum has begun a process that …
Will You Lose Your Museum Job to a Robot?
Drawing produced by participants in the CFM “Drawing Club” event at the 2012 AAM conference OK, maybe not to a robot, but to increasingly sophisticated automation. This question is prompted by a report released last month by …
Suggested Practices for Collections Space Security
The Suggested Practices for Collections Space Security helps guide museums towards the minimum procedural and physical security requirements for collections areas. The Suggested Practices are the minimum necessary to protect objects in the …
The Genomics of Art, Education & Commerce: Part I
Recently I blogged about Art.sy, a service built on “The Art Genome Project” that enables users to discover, learn about, and collect art that is suggested to them via a mathematical algorithm. That post provoked so much interesting …
LED Lighting
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2012 issue of Museum magazine. Tungsten illumination—familiarly known as the traditional light bulb with a glowing tungsten filament— dominated indoor lighting during the early 20th century. …
Collections and Storage Handling on a Shoestring
Watch this recorded webinar discussing practical solutions to collections storage issues and ways to effectively care for collections using available materials, resources, and your own needs-based…
