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Stone Soup

By Elizabeth Merritt
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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 …

What does it mean to decolonize a museum?

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Creating Engaging Virtual Reality Experiences for Your Museum Collection Might Be Easier Than You Think

By Brady Lund and Shari Scribner

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

By Dr. Edith Doron
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Setting the stage for my career path: Maria Marable Bunch Excellence in Practice award winner reflects on her career.

By Maria Marable Bunch
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Making SPACE: An innovative high school program creating artists and winning awards

By Lydia Ross and Ricardo Gamboa

Call for Applications: Aroha Fellowship for Museums & Creative Aging

By Elizabeth Merritt
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American Alliance of Museums Empanels Education Task Force

By Joseph Klem

The Citizenship Project

By Samantha Rijkers
Samantha Rijkers, Citizenship Project Manager, New-York Historical Society

‘Art Rx’: museum tours linked to easing chronic pain

By Gabriella Angeleti, The Art Newspaper

Exploring a Fragmented Future

By Elizabeth Merritt
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What makes K-12 public school educators choose to use a museum as part of their curriculum?

By Amber Geary
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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 …

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 …