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Psyched about Storytelling
AAM just announced the theme for our 2013 annual meeting in Baltimore, and it is (drumroll, please): Storytelling This is such a great theme, for many reasons. While people who work in, and with, museums can’t seem to agree on how to … -
Building a Healthier Community from the Inside Out
As I recently reviewed the wonderful stories we’ve compiled about museums, food and community, I noticed that most of our attention has focused on museums helping their audiences become fitter and healthier. Wait—what about us!? This … -
Artists, Art, and Historic Sites: A Revitalization of the Past Through Present Creativity
Kate Laurel Burgess-Mac Intosh is an independent museum professional whoshares her research on contemporary art/historic site mash-ups on theblog Revitalizing Historic Sites and on Facebook. Sheis Chair of the Young and Emerging Museum … -
Our Broken Economic Model
Every so often I realize I am having the same conversation so frequently, I might as well write it down and share it with everyone. Today’s conversation is “How Museums Are Like Newspapers and What We Can Learn from That.” I haven’t come … -
A Rising Tide: The Changing Landscape of Risk Assessment
In my time heading the Excellence Programs at AAM (including MAP and Accreditation) it was always a challenge to coax, cajole or even gently bully museums into producing well-tailored risk management plans. AAM staff tried disseminating … -
Integrating Collaboration and Technology to Create a Crowdsourced Experience
I attended the Media & Technology Committee’s MUSE awards ceremony at the AAM annual meeting in Minneapolis Saint Paul a few weeks ago. The award-winning projects illustrate a number of the cultural and technological trends CFM is … -
Yarnbombing Museums: Blow the Doors Down
Today’s guest post is by Streetcolor, a knitter and yarnbomber who has blogged for CFM before about the experience of creating art outside a museum’s authority. Now Streetcolor blogs about the experience of being invited inside… Ten … -
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’ …
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