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What does it mean to decolonize a museum?

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By Elisa Shoenberger In the past few years, museums across the US, Europe, and Australia are trying to tackle the challenge of decolonizing their institutions. However, the very meaning of …

Curator as Catalyst: How an interdisciplinary fellowship inspired “a new way of doing museum”

By Dr. Edith Doron
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Writing Fashion History at the Met, One Dress at a Time

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Listen to the Interns: The Importance of the “Budding Scholar” for Museum Decolonization

By Ashleigh Smith
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Museums are curating an era of social movements in real time

By Ivette Feliciano, PBS.org

Mission Accomplished?: As Mainstream Art Museums Rush to Diversify, What is the Role of Culturally Specific Museums Working for a Cause?

By Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews

European museums may loan back some works stolen from former colonies

By James McAuley and Rick Noack, Washington Post

What Is Curatorial Activism?

By Maura Reilly, ARTnews

On Cross Collecting, or Cross-Over Buying

By David Bellingham, Sothebysinstitute

The site of the earliest known temple on earth continues to keep its secrets

By Yasmine Seale, Apollo Magazine

Join me in Detroit to Explore the Future of Immersive Practice

By Elizabeth Merritt
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Māori ancestors repatriated to New Zealand by the Peabody Museum

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

By Mark Sundlov
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Category: Financial Sustainability
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, …

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 …