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Explore dozens of articles and member resources on financial sustainability in museums.
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
Two-dimensional renderings (such as the ones you see on this page) can deliver a general idea of a building's form and scale. But virtual reality's uncanny ability to convey a sensation of …
At LACMA, new urgency to finish raising $650 million for the new museum building
On the 14 th floor of a Wilshire Boulevard high rise, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Director Michael Govan strolls the length of the museum's boardroom overlooking LACMA's campus across …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Unwanted Water
According to the Floodsmart.gov website, coastal areas of the US account for more than half of the nation’s population and housing. This pattern is reflected the distribution of American …