Education & Interpretation

Museum Design 2034: Perpetual Beta

By Elizabeth Merritt

I blogged last week about how futurists write stories of the future based on trends we can observe now. This helps people explore what their lives, and their organizations, might look like in these potential futures, which in turn helps …
An Opportunity to Expand Your Horizons (and Save the World)

By Elizabeth Merritt

Having just webcast the second annual CFM lecture (Gregory Rodriguez exploring the future of museums in a majority/minority nation) this seems an opportune time to revisit the topic of our first lecture “Gaming (is) the Future of …
When Themes Collide: Newspapers, Gaming and Museums

By Elizabeth Merritt

Theme 1: Last spring James Chung of Reach Advisors hosted a conversation during the AAM meeting in Philadelphia exploring what museums can learn from the recent plight of the newspaper industry, and the collapse of their business model. …
Sneak Preview of a New Museum Game

By John Maccabee

CFM has from its inception has explored what museums can learn from games, and game design. In this guest post, John Maccabee, of San Francisco based CityMystery, gives readers an early glimpse into the creation of a new, multi-museum …
What Teachers Want from Field Trips

By Mary Ellen Flannery

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2009 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Ten-year-old Alejandra, playing the part of a fortunate daughter of Virginia patriot George Mason, has spilled a slice of onion …
The Post-educational Museum

By Elizabeth Merritt

The recent kerfluffle about whether museums should be included in the federal stimulus bill was a depressing reminder of the narrow stereotypes into which museums force themselves in order to protect their access to public funding. For …