Community Engagement & Impact

The Future of Food

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’m finishing my edits to a manuscript that grew out of CFM’s Feeding the Spirit Symposium in Pittsburgh last year. The discussion guide we assembled for the subsequent webcast is morphing into an e-book as well as a traditional print …
Coming Soon to Your Museum–The Internet of Cars

By Elizabeth Merritt

I can hardly wait for the “Internet of Cars” to become something we simply take for granted. This includes cars that drive themselves (now legal in Californiaand licensed in Nevada), but also cars that: Find their own parking places And …
Do Campus Museums Enjoy Greater Freedom to Innovate?

By Elizabeth Merritt

In today’s post, guest blogger Pam Campanaro, Education and Public Programs Coordinator at the Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, continues the ongoing commentary on the Campus Art Museum report, with an exploration of the on-campus …
The Genomics of Art, Education & Commerce: Part II

By Elizabeth Merritt

This is the second of a two posts sharing my interview with Christine Kuan, Chief Curator and Director of Strategic Partnerships at Art.sy—a web platform designed to help users browse and purchase art. Part 1 [insert link] explored …
The Genomics of Art, Education & Commerce: Part I

By Elizabeth Merritt

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 …
Monday Musings: the Importance of Storytelling (and what museums and e-commerce have in common)

By Elizabeth Merritt

I launched Monday Musings last week as a way of sharing intriguing things I spot on the Web that deserve more than a tweet, but about which I’m not ready to pull together my thoughts for a full length post. I set myself a 15 minute time …
One From Each Category: Part 1

By Elizabeth Merritt

Sometimes I find myself fixating on one category of change, usually technology, since it gets so much coverage in the press. Who can resist news about robots and 3-D printing? (Or 3-D printing that kind of turns a little girl into a …
Peering into the Future of the Workplace

By Elizabeth Merritt

Last Friday I moderated a virtual breakout session for the Smith Leadership Symposium, organized by the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership. Their focus this year was on organizational innovation, and in preparation for the event, I provided …
Depth Finding: Excavating Treasure, Educating Families

By Jennifer Pace Robinson

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2012 edition of Museum magazine. Once upon a time, pirates prowled the high seas in search of precious metals and jewels. But for The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and its …
Catching up with Jeannette Ickovics: 2011 Feeding the Spirit Keynote Speaker

By Elizabeth Merritt

Can a museum win the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Childhood Obesity Challenge? With your help, maybe yes. Read on. Last winter, Jeannette Ickovics from the Yale School of Public Health talked to us about the exhibit Big Food: Health …