Finding Community: Engaging Diverse Audiences in a Historic House
In April, 2007, a small but influential group of historic house professionals, association and foundation staff gathered at Kykuit, the historic Rockefeller Estate in Pocantico Hills, NY, for the Forum on Historic Site Stewardship in the …
No Place Like Home
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Outsourcing exhibits rather than producing them in-house may seem like a money-saving strategy, but it may actually cost …
Innovation Lab for Museums: Third of a Four-part Series
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. Museum has been chronicling the progress of the Alliance’s Innovation Lab for Museums, a grant-funded program that enables participants to …
Sleuths in the City
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. A History Museum Just For Kids “This is awesome! You’ve gotta see this,” a fourth-grader squeals to her friend, pointing to …
Graceland Stands Apart
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. Excerpt, From The Holy Land to Grace/and: Sacred People, Places and Things in Our Lives, The AAM Press, 2012. What makes Graceland unique among …
Work in Progress: Exhibiting Present-Day Evolution
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2012 edition of Museum magazine. Natural history museums are stuffed to the rafters with evidence of evolution; from dinosaur bones to clams, from mammal skins to jars of preserved …
Integrating Collaboration and Technology to Create a Crowdsourced Experience
I attended the Media & Technology Committee’s MUSE awards ceremony at the AAM annual meeting in Minneapolis Saint Paul a few weeks ago. The award-winning projects illustrate a number of the cultural and technological trends CFM is …
FLUX | AAM – CFM
This week, guest blogger Peter Kimelman, founding director of the FLUX Foundation, previews his group’s participatory art project at the upcoming AAM annual meeting. One of PK’s recent projects was conducting research on wine and design …
Open Authority & the Future of Museum Ethics
Lori Byrd Phillips is the U.S. Cultural Partnerships Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedian in Residence at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. As a museum studies graduate student at Indiana University-Purdue …
Steampunk, Crowdfunding and the Power of Social Media
Or, How One Exhibit Company Pulled A Brass Elephant Out Of A Hat This week’s guest post is by Peter Overstreet. Pete and his wife, Cat Taylor, founded the exhibit and event design company Aeronaut Productions LLC. Pete was a full-time …
