Financial Sustainability

Commerce vs. Curation: Lessons From Today’s Museums World

"We see more private collectors engaged with museum boards and loaning works to museums," said John Mathews, head of private wealth management at UBS America. "Competition for the best …
By Scott Reyburn, Nytimes

The mirage of riches in museums’ vaults

By Martin Gammon, The Art Newspaper

Sharing Outcomes from “Don’t Raid the Cookie Jar” – Opening remarks by Laura Lott

By Laura Lott

With Big Gift and Tighter Oversight, the Met Gains Solid Ground

By Robin Pogrebin, Nytimes

How I Rewrote the Future of the Anthropocene

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By Elizabeth Merritt

Building a National, Distributed Museum

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By Elizabeth Merritt

Membership Isn’t the Top of the Mountain

By Eric Bruce

To B Corps or not to B Corps—A Case Study

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By Elizabeth Merritt

Companies with Benefits, Part 2: B Corps or not B Corps, that is the question

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By Elizabeth Merritt

Companies with Benefits, Part 1: Benefit Corporations

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By Elizabeth Merritt

The Witte Museum – A Catalyst for San Antonio on the Rise

By Laura Lott

Philanthropy in the Age of Scale: MacArthur Foundation 100&Change

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By Elizabeth Merritt
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From Stodgy to Story – Glensheen’s historic transformation

Image of a Lucie sitting near an open window which is fuzzy in the background. She is wearing a pale green top and dark rimmed glasses. She has shoulder length wavy dirty blond hair.
By Lucie B. Amundsen
Alliance Blog
In 2013, it was clear that Glensheen, the historic Congdon estate on Lake Superior was in decline—and it wasn’t just a brick and mortar problem. “Our attendance that year was at a low of …

Exploring the Future Through the Museum of Banned Objects

By Elizabeth Merritt
Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
One way futurists expand our thinking is through the creation of immersive scenarios: physical embodiments of possible futures. In one of my favorite examples, futurist Jake Dunagan …

Museums & Climate Change: A Global Response

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By Sarah Sutton
Environmental Sustainability
At the first International Symposium on Museums & Climate Change*, held April 10 – 13 in Manchester, UK, seventy-five or more attendees gathered to explore how museums can and should …