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A Futures Approach to Museum Planning
Nothing gives me greater joy than learning how the futurist materials created by CFM have helped museums and museum people in their work. Today on the blog, Ty Smith and Jeremy Taylor tell …
Opportunities for Museums to Lead for the Future of Learning
When the Alliance launched the Center of the Future of Museums a decade ago, museum people told us loud and clear that they wanted us to explore the future of education as part of our work. …
Exploring a Fragmented Future
The second installment of TrendsWatch 2018’s scenarios of 2040 is now up on the web for discussion and comment! Fragmentation is woven from some of the anxieties shared by museum people …
Cultivating Lifelong Appreciation
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2018 issue of Museum magazine. A look at teen programs that are preparing the next generation of museum visitors, staff, and supporters …
Failing Towards Success
This excerpt from TrendsWatch 2017 originally appeared in the March/April 2017 issue of Museum magazine. “If you’re creating things, you’re doing things that have a high …
Future Fiction Challenge Winner!
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2016 issue of Museum magazine. Albert Camus once said, “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.” Good futurist fiction …
Building the Future of Education
In September 2013, over four dozen educational policy experts, practitioners, funders, education innovators, reformers, student activists and others shaping the conversation about U.S. …
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From SME to C-Suite: Complementing Your Specialization with a Business School Education
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Alliance Blog
In June, reporter Robin Pogrebin published “What Does It Take to Run a Museum? The Job Description is Changing.” in The New York Times. Drawing on interviews with veteran art museum …
Evidence of Things Not Seen
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
The current edition of TrendsWatch includes a “Short Take” on how our country and our sector are beginning to grapple with how to compensate descendant communities for historic harms. …
September Advocacy Updates – Congress Returns and NVRD 2023
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Advocacy Alert
Advocacy Alert – September 8, 2023 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Speak Up for Museums: Congress Returns for a Busy Fall Season – and a Government Shutdown? News You Can Use: …