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Culture Kettle, my new R&D organization — What’s in it for museums?
This week’s guest blogger is Peter Linett, Partner in Slover Linett Strategies, Inc., and member of the CFM Council. Elizabeth Merritt was kind enough to give Culture Kettle a shout-out in this blog when I announced its founding back in … -
The “Realness” of Museums’ Online Communities: A Platform for the Future
Colleen Dilenschneider’s posts on Know Your Own Bone are always a “first read” when they pop up on my blog feed. I suggested our recent guest poster, Jonathan Baskin, read her recent post on museums’ use of social media as he organized his … -
An Alternate Future for Museums: Part II
Global brand strategist Jonathan Salem Baskin contributes part two in his series of visions about the future of museums. You can read part one here. Museums in 2020: When Communities Got Real The siren call of Facebook and other social … -
We Saw the Future, Now What?
Guzel duChateau is the CFM Coordinator and AAM’s New Media Specialist. She also leads the association’s Emerging Museum Professionals group. CFM works closely with the EMPs since (after all) they are the museum professionals of the future! … -
Help Build the Collections of The Universal Museum of Creative Matter!
If you got up right now and walked around your workplace/house/campus/neighborhood, what evidence would you find of small, mundane, creative acts? Why do I ask? I never thought I’d say this, but I am starting a museum. About … -
Seeing Individuals in Diversity
This week’s guest post is from Julia Brucker, Museum Education Coordinator at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, Mass. On a chilly spring evening, the lights were still burning at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, Mass. … -
Trendwatching! A Foodie Future
This article in today’s New York Times takes a good look at how botanic gardens are adapting to several trends: the growing appeal of the “locavore” and “slow food” movements. increase in number of women in … -
Update on Empowering New Immigrants through Art
This week’s guest post is by Patricia Lannes, director of education at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, N.Y. Demographic Transformation and the Future of Museums briefly profiles NCMA’s work with new immigrants. Patricia … -
Helping Hands
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2010 edition of Museum magazine. There are more volunteers than ever before—and museums need every one of them. As museums soldier on through the recession, their dependence on … -
Museums as Community Catalysts: Museum of Northern Arizona
Many museums aspire to be “conveners,” “dialog centers” and “safe places for conversation.” So it’s nice to be able to share stories of museums living up to this aspiration. This week the Museum of Northern Arizona provided a forum this …
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