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Some Great Museums Ready to Move
How can we make sure museums are recognized for all the good things they do for their communities? Kudos from the White House would be one great thing, wouldn’t it? That’s why AAM is partnering with ACM and APGA to launch a “Let’s Move … -
Advocacy Day 2026
“’Lizbeth! You’re going to miss our Advocacy Day appointment!” “Damn, is that now?! I thought we were down for 10:30.” “We were…they just pinged us, pushing it up a half hour.” “Of course they did. When will I learn?” Dashing into the … -
An Idea for New Income and New Engagement: give your collections to as many people as possible
Got your attention with that headline, didn’t I? Calm down, I’m not talking about deaccessioning. I’m talking replication and teleportation of collections objects. Everyone has their own fav future tech. Phil’s is jetpacks: Mine is … -
Flex your Twitter Muscles and Prep to Tackle the Diversity Challenge!
Are you psyched about this Thursday’s Diversity Twebevent? Betty Farrell, Cecilia Garibay and Lisa Sasaki, are primed and ready to tweet with you on Feb. 24, from 2–3 p.m. (ET), exploring how museums are tackling demographic change. Full … -
Museums, Informal Learning and K-12 Education
Today’s guest post is by David Ucko, president of Museums + more LLC. David has long been immersed in the world of museums as learning providers. While acting as division director in the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and … -
Let’s Help America Move!
How can museums change the world? Here’s an invitation to rise to one compelling challenge—helping our communities raise a generation of healthy, active kids. The American Association of Museums (AAM) is working with the American Public … -
CFM Training on Futures Studies in Houston–Register Now!
Are you psyched to come to Houston and envision the “Museum of Tomorrow?” I hope so, and to help you build this future CFM is offering an all-day forecasting workshop on Sunday, May 22, 2011 at the AAM annual meeting. It’s … -
Unleash the Power of Twitter to Tackle the Diversity Challenge!
On Feb. 24, 2–3 p.m. (ET), CFM will host the Demographic Transformation and the Future of Museums twebevent, and you’re invited. Have you ever attended a twebevent? Me neither, but that isn’t stopping me from throwing one!AAM released the … -
Foreseeing the Future through Fiction
Good fiction tells the truth about something that never happened. Good futurist fiction tells the truth about something that may yet happen. That being so, reading (or watching) futurist fiction is a valuable part of scanning and …
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