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What Do Ethical Consumers Expect of Museums?
An open letter released today calls on natural history and science museums to “cut all ties with the fossil fuel industry and funders of climate change obfuscation.” The letter, signed by …
Monday Musing: TrendsWatch Watch
Here’s a quick roundup of recent stories related to the themes in TrendsWatch 2015 (Haven’t got your copy yet? Download the free PDF here. Print copies will be available in the AAM …
Shaping the Future of Museum Ethics
Today the Alliance is launching a survey asking for input on what museum professionals think should be included in the definition of direct care. Sally Yerkovich, Chair of the AAM Direct …
Wordless Wednesday: On Ethics, and Tiara-wearing Punk Grandmothers
#VivienneWestwood #Kenya #Tiara #Ethics Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) on CFM’s Pinterest Bo…
Museums… So What?
In August last year, the ethicist and contemporary philosopher Peter Singer wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times that struck a nerve with me and with many in the arts community …
Sold out of science: embracing private collectors in natural history museums.
Is there such a thing as déjà prevu—the feeling of seeing something that you intended to write, but haven’t, yet? This feeling swept over me recently when I read a piece by Mark Carnall, …
Futurist Friday: Artifacts of the Future
What artifacts will history museums of the future collect, and how will we interpret them? Scenarios—fictional stories of potential futures—can help us imagine how we would adapt to …
Ethics Smackdown: For the Resolution
This is the fourth and (for now) final installment of our report on the debate held at the Alliance in May regarding the future of museum ethics. In today’s post, James Bradburne, director …
Ethics Smackdown: Against the Resolution
This is the third installment in our report from the Ethics Smackdown at the Alliance annual meeting, debating whether museums should loosen the ethics restrictions governing the use of …
Required Elements of a Museum Code of Ethics
In this recorded webinar, presenters discuss why every museum should have a tailored Code of Ethics that addresses the institution's specific issues, outlines its basic ethical and public …
Ethics Smackdown: Preamble
Last week I wrote about the Ethics Smackdown that took place at the Alliance annual meeting last month. This week, Sally Yerkovich, director of the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall …
Ethics Smackdown: A Preview of the Future?
I returned from the Alliance annual meeting in Baltimore to find my scanning feeds clogged with a spate of articles about the threat of the state-appointed emergency manager selling …