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  • Thinning the Ranks–Alert!

    I’ve had many a late-night debate about whether the field as a whole might actually be healthier if there were fewer museums, and some of the perpetually unstable ones closed. Whether or not that ever happens, we may be on the verge of …
  • Breaking Research News at the AAM Annual Meeting!

    Reach Advisors (authors of the AAM forecasting report “Museums & Society 2034: Trends and Potential Futures“) have announced major data releases to be held at the AAM meeting later this month. James Chung and Susie …
  • Creating the New

    How many of you know of dysfunctional relationships between universities and museums? Hark–I hear a forest of hands rise across the land. Too often colleges and universities fail to take advantage of the resources in museums (their …
  • The Whole World a Museum?

    Take a look at “Tales of Things,” an interesting website that launched this month. It’s part of the TOTeM project—“exploring social memory in the emerging Internet of Things.” This UK-based project …
  • Hello Museum People!

    My name is Pinky and I am from The Pinky Show. Bunny and I were invited do a guest CFM blog, so here we are. We realize that many of you may not know who we are or why we are interested in museums, so we will start with that. We run an …
  • Museums in a Troubled World: Models for Relevance

    This week’s guest blogger, James Leventhal, is Deputy Director for Development at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco (follow them on Twitter @jewseum), and serves on the board of the Western Museums Association. I had the good …
  • Shaping the Financial Future of Museums: A Commentary by Marie Malaro

    This week’s guest blogger is Marie C. Malaro, a lawyer, author and retired university professor. For many years she was legal counsel for the Smithsonian Institution, and later was Director of the Graduate Program in Museum Studies …
  • Museum Design 2034: Respite and Retreat

    This is the third installment of a series of “stories from the future” illustrating how museum practitioners can use trends data as a jumping off point for exploring potential futures. (Read the earlier installments here and here. The CFM …
  • Another Opportunity to Train as a Futurist

    Why? Because bringing a futurist perspective to museum planning is really, really useful. Futurism, and forecasting, is about understanding how to spot and interpret relevant trends, project what they may mean for the future of your …
  • The Future is Collaborative Part II: Early Exemplars

    This is the second guest blog post by Günter Waibel, Program Officer at OCLC Research on the convergence of libraries, archives and museums (LAMs.) Read part I here. When OCLC Research recently studied LAM convergence through a workshop …

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