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  • Call for Applications: Aroha Fellowship for Museums & Creative Aging

    Last week the Alliance launched the search for our first senior fellow. With the generous support of Aroha Philanthropies, this individual will spend two years advancing the work of museums with respect to creative aging. One of the goals …
  • The Joker in the Museum Planning Pack

    The fourth and final installment of TrendsWatch 2018’s scenarios of the future is now up on the web. Wild Times explores what might happen if fate deals our field an unexpected card: the loss of nonprofit status. In this version of 2040, …
  • Futurist Friday: Emotional Storytelling

    My favorite futurist video this week: Karen Palmer talking about her latest artificial intelligence project. Palmer is an artist/technologist who combines film, storytelling, and neuroscience to create ’emotionally responsive …
  • A Roundup of Decolonization News

    The popularity of last week’s guest post by Frank Howarth on decolonizing the museum mind prompts me to share a round-up of some of the stories I’ve been collecting on efforts to decolonize museum practice. The following abstracts and …
  • Decolonizing the Museum Mind

    At the heart of modern museum work is the tension between our mission to preserve the past, and a moral obligation to confront the bias and inequities entangled with that inheritance. The history, mindset, and material culture of …
  • Crowdsourcing a Conference on Creative Aging

    Would your museum like to host a national convening on museums and creative aging? Rather than figuring out the best site for such a meeting on our own, my colleagues and I at the Alliance are inviting you to speak up. Let’s call it …
  • Exploring the Explosion of Museum AI

    Here are five good reasons you should join me in Miami Nov 1-2 to explore how museums can use artificial intelligence to fuel their work (illustrated by recent news): AI can help users in and out of the museum explore collections in new …
  • Futurist Friday: Poetic Lions

    As I prepare for the Alliance convening “New Intelligences,” I found this gem of an AI-powered art project installed this summer in Trafalgar Square. “Please Feed the Lions” is an interactive sculpture created by …
  • Meet Me in Miami to Explore Museums and AI

    Right now I’m working on the agenda for Museums and New Intelligences, the Alliance’s second Knight Foundation-funded mini-conference exploring museum applications of emerging technologies. I hope you will join me at the Pérez Museum …

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