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Monday Musing: reinventing the “library”
In case this is your first Monday visit to the Blog–“Musings” are my place to share brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently. I set the stopwatch for 15 minutes & jot down a summary of an … -
Futurist Friday: Virtual Reality & the Museum of the Future
The immersive virtual museum experience (at least the visual dimension) is creeping closer and closer. Your Futurist Friday assignment: this 2 min video by Europeana, using Oculus’ head-mounted display to tour a 3D model of the … -
Throwback Thursday: When Your Collection has More Twitter Followers Than You Do
Today I reprise one of my all-time favorite posts. Working at the Alliance gives me the opportunity to interview all sorts of interesting folk–Neil deGrasse Tyson, Rob Walker–rock stars all! But none are dearer to my heart than … -
Teaching Economics at the Museum
Sometimes I read a news item so great I have to track down the person at the heart of the story, and beg for more details. Here’s an example: an article on Magnapubs entitled Museum Exhibits and Macroeconomics? In it, professor Satarupa … -
Futurist Friday: the future, as foretold in the past
Italian information visualization designer Giorgia Lupi created a fabulous “map of time” for Brain Pickings, showing future events as predicted by famous novels. It includes a breakdown of the forecasts in these works of … -
Throwback Thursday: Revisiting the future workforce
This week’s Dispatches from the Future of Museums features a story about a report from the Labor Department that shows the rate of volunteerism in the U.S,. is the lowest it has been in a decade. The biggest declines are among those … -
Towards a Green Future: Environment and Resource Sustainability in Museums
One of my stretch goals at CFM is helping to foster “a futurist in every museum.” To that end, I have been pleased to serve as an advisor to the California Association of Museums Leaders of the Future Program. That program has been the … -
Futurist Friday: Flocks of Autonomous Flying Drones
Whether or not Amazon overcomes the difficulties of instituting drone deliver service in the US, drones have a bright future with a variety of applications. They are being used to survey archaeological sites, escort children to the bus … -
Throwback Thursday: “myCulture” and crowdsourcing museum content
This Throwback post revisits a theme from CFM’s first forecasting paper. “myCulture” heralded a creative renaissance driven by a generation of young adults who want to loose their creative energies on shared cultural … -
Explore the Future of Food & Museums in Seattle
Jessica Harris Are you coming to the annual meeting in May? Bring a hearty appetite for some exciting ideas on museums & food! Culinary historian Jessica Harris, CFM’s 2011 lecturer for the “Feeding the Spirit: Museums, Food and …
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