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Some Notes on the Future of History Museums: Part II
This is the second installment of Phil Katz’s report from the recent joint meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) and National Council on Public History (NCPH). You can catch up on part one here. While I was at the … -
Some Notes on the Future of History Museums
In today’s post Phil Katz, who directs AAM’s research programs and collaborates with me on CFM’s forecasting reports, shares some of the wealth of information he brought back from a recent professional meeting. Last month I spent a few … -
How Museums are Like Bellybuttons and What That Tells Us
I think it’s time to share my omphalic classification scheme for museums. I started using this metaphor while I was directing AAM’s excellence programs (MAP, Accreditation) to capture my observations about major differences about museums’ … -
Illustrations of the Future
The AAM annual meeting is often a little bit overwhelming. And exhausting. OK, it is always a bit overwhelming & exhausting. That being so, I was particularly pleased with this year’s CFM guest artists project. As I wrotebefore the … -
DIGITAL DIASPORA FAMILY REUNION: Curating Family Stories in The Digital Museum
Recently, reading EmcArts’ Audio Postcards documenting the 2011 Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund (CIF) awardees, this video caught my attention: “These guys may not know it,” I thought, “but they are creating a crowdsourced … -
Unschooling, Museums & Learning Models for this Century
One trend highlighted in TrendsWatch 2012 is America’s jittering progress towards a new educational era. I’ve been exploring a number of alternate futures for our learning landscape, in this blog and in the article “The Future of … -
Does a Museum Need Four Walls?
One theme featured in TrendsWatch 2012 is “Takin’ It to the Streets”—the rise of pop-up and mobile retail, cultural and social experiences. Throughout the year we will monitor how this trend is playing out in museums. Today’s guest post, … -
Report from #FutrChat
Last Thursday eighty-three futurists and museumers participated in #futrchat on Twitter, co-hosted by the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) and CFM. The tweets flew fast and furious (over 600 of them!) as our sectors exchanged … -
Are Natural History Museums Ready to Become Superheroes?
Look at the tagline at the top of this page: “because museums can change the world.” I can make a credible argument that natural history museums have the greatest potential, among their brethren in art, history, science, to play global … -
Futurist Friday: Short Glimpses
Two very brief videos to fuel your futures-thinking. Project Glass presents a first-person view of a future in which locality-aware data is continually streamed into your line of sight—from the time you wake up for your morning coffee …
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