Exhibitions

Curatorial Chatbot: An Experiment with AI at the Nasher Museum of Art

By Elizabeth Merritt

CFM has explored museum applications of artificial intelligence (AI) since 2017, notably business analytics, customer service, collections data analysis, and provenance research. Today on the blog, Julianne Miao tells us how the Nasher …
Moments That Matter: Toward a Visitor-Centered Understanding of Belonging in Museum Spaces

By Evelyn Ronning, Sarah Lukowski, Amy Grack Nelson, Marjorie Bequette

Imagine being a visitor or a member of a visiting group walking into the lobby of a museum you’re familiar with: you see a sign proclaiming “you belong here.” How would you get a sense of belonging in that space? What would you see, hear, …
Resisting the Colonial Imagination: The Role of Exhibition Design in the Decolonial Project

By Adrienne Lalli Hills, Margaret Middleton

It is Monday morning at First Americans Museum (FAM), and a group of fifth graders are bustling with excitement as they embark on a gallery tour. A museum educator welcomes the students in her native language and emphasizes the uniqueness …
The Six Tools for Effective Digital Design

By Barry Joseph

In 2020, after a fifteen-year run working in museums on digital engagement projects, I decided to start my own consultancy. In the process of building it, I often heard from people familiar with my projects, whether from my blog, social …
The Earnest Work of Dreaming: Chicanafuturism in Visual Art

By Jadira Gurulé

Visions of the future created by and centering the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) are essential to our collective potential to transform the world as we know it. For decades, BIPOC artists working in …
The Value of Traveling Exhibits

By Cecelia Walls

This infographic shows some of the important ways that traveling exhibits provide financial, educational, and mission support for the museum. The Value of Traveli…
Crafting Cardboard Experiences: The Activity that Evolved into an Exhibition

By Joe Imholte and Keith Braafladt

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2023) Vol. 42 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. www.name-aam.org. If you don’t read the journal, learn how you can subscribe to Exhibition to receive your copy of the …
Tough Art: Building a Collection at Any Price

By Anne Fullenkamp

This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2023) Vol. 42 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. www.name-aam.org. If you don’t read the journal, learn how you can subscribe to Exhibition to receive your copy of the …
Trusting the Process: The Collaborative Journey to Reframing a Problematic Object

By Amy Gilman

“Put it in storage.” “Replace it with something else.” “Put up a new label.” “Do nothing.” These were some of the solutions offered up when the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison began exploring how to confront …
Different by Design: A New, Inclusive Framework for Accessible Museum Exhibitions

By Sarah Schleuning

In January 2020, I authored a post for the Alliance Blog about speechless: different by design, an exhibition that I curated for the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. The exhibition was an experiment—one …