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Explore dozens of articles and member resources on financial sustainability in museums.
Is It Time to Break Your Museum’s Organizational Mold?
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 New Way to See: Looking at museums through the eyes of the blind
Let’s talk about accessibility. In the twenty-first century era of inclusivity, museums are working towards making the visitor experience a more positive and unique one, as part of efforts …
How architects are using virtual reality to walk through buildings that don’t yet exist
While architects have always employed drawings and models to display and design architectural plans, virtual reality technology is offering more opportunities now to experience and move …
At LACMA, new urgency to finish raising $650 million for the new museum building
U.S. tariffs on steel, other escalating building costs, general inflation, and a construction boom in Los Angeles all threaten to further inch up the cost of a major construction project at …
Leading Forward: engaging with complex and controversial topics
I’m using the 10th anniversary of CFM, and the ninth year of this blog, as an occasion to revisit some of our most widely read posts. Today I’m re-posting an essay by Sean …
Postcards from the future
Last week I flew down to Miami for the Contemporary Art in Historic Contexts Symposium at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. Vizcaya gathered curators, scholars, educators, and artists from around …
Wordless Wednesday: Benthic Museology
@museoatlantico #newmuseum #climatechange Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) on CFM’s Pinter…
Wordless Wednesday: a floating urban future
@koenolthuis @WaterstudioNL #SeaTree #RisingTides#architecture #sustainability Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and …
Wordless Wednesday: Give Me Shelter
@DesignMuseum #refugees @Better_Shelter @Ikea#MuseumsforGood Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) …
A Futuryst Look at the Museum of Tomorrow
I’ve been following the work of Futurist Stuart Candy since the inception of CFM. The Sceptical Futuryst—his blog dedicated to “how we might feel about tomorrow”– is a staple of my …
Wordless Wednesday: Imagining the Guggenheim Helsinki
#musedesign #architecture #ALAgoldwinner @MyefskiArch Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) on CFM’s Pinter…
Futurist Friday: Cognitive Museum Buildings
Here’s a short video from Jonathan Strickland of Forward Thinking on the emergence of “cognitive buildings”: structures that use the internet of things (IoT) to analyze …