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Advancing Equity Through Arts and Culture
HI, Nicole here! Earlier this month, I had the honor of participating in a panel discussion held by Cool Culture, a New York City cultural organization that encourages arts education by providing free access to local arts institutions for … -
Futurist Friday: Immersing Yourself in Your Fears
Today’s video–the Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano–is longer than my usual FF suggestion, but it is so sad, weird and thought-provoking I’m serving it up anyway. It would be well worth taking 24 minutes during lunch, … -
The Future of Ownership
When it comes to collecting, museums are at the very end of a long chain of decisions. Before that new acquisition comes under the registrar’s pen, someone had to create an object, purchase or collect it, enabling it to eventually wend its … -
Spontaneous, object-based fun with MuseumProv
I’m always on the lookout for entrepreneurs finding and filling open economic niches in and around museums. Previously, on the Blog, Nick Gray has shared how Museum Hack is building its business on the market for fun, irreverent, social … -
The Future is Diverse
Today’s guest post is jointly authored by members of the 2016 cohort of the History Museum Fellows Program—a partnership between the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) that engages students in studying the … -
Playing in the Museum Sandbox
Readers of CFM’s TrendsWatch reports and followers of this Blog will know of my fascination with the emerging business model of museums running co-working spaces. It’s such a genius use of museum resources (staff expertise, visitors, … -
Futurist Friday: Emotional Intelligence
For your Friday future-break, here is a lovely short film by Dennis Sungmin Kim, exploring a future in which artificial intelligence has been supplemented by “artificial emotion.” ei: emotional intelligence from Dennis Sungmin … -
FutureProofing Natural History Collections
When the Alliance chose financial sustainability as one of three areas of focus for our new strategic plan, I gravitated to one of the hardest challenges of all: how can we help create financially sustainable models for supporting … -
What If Educators Ran a Museum?
I’ve been intrigued by the El Segundo Museum of Art since I first read about it in the Los Angeles Times when the museum opened in 2013. That article emphasized ESMoA’s focus on arts education, noting that four public schools are within … -
Futurist Friday: Superhuman
As you may have guessed from Wednesday’s wordless post, I’m glued to the Paralympics this week. Today I’m encouraging you to watch this trailer for the 2016 Paralympic games titled “We’re the …
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