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Monday Musings: on the Corcoran
Reading the news about the Corcoran Gallery of Art last week made me very happy, if a little puzzled, too.For those of you who haven’t been following the story, a quick recap. The Corcoran is a private, nonprofit museum here in DC, … -
Futurist Friday: Visitor Analytics
Your Futurist Friday assignment is this very brief (1.58 min) video from Cisco about using Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) analytics to locate and track every wireless device in a venue. While the commentary in this piece is about … -
A Game for (Future) Good: FutureCoast
The first trend CFM tackled, with the help of futurist and games-designer Dr. Jane McGonigal, was the rise of “gaming for good” and the potential for games-design to make museum experiences more compelling and rewarding. Today’s guest post … -
When Preschool IS the Museum
Michael Edson recently challenged museums to think about how we can help a billionlearners in this country. Some of that impact will be digital and online, through individual museum projects or platforms like Khan Academy. But our impact … -
Monday Musings: What Price Nonprofit?
Today’s brief musing was prompted by an article this past Saturday in the New York Times: It May be a Nonprofit Theater, but the Tickets Look For-ProfitIt lists the ways in which nonprofit theaters in New York are acting more and … -
Futurist Friday: Hyper-Reality
I’m happy to see that Keiichi Matsuda successfully funded his “Hyper-Reality” film series through a Kickstarter project. It looks like an awesome futurist project. This series of 5 minute films, set in Medellin, Columbia, … -
Revisiting the Borgias
This Throwback Thursday post revisits an issue I touched on back at the beginning of the financial crisis, in 2009: how the decline in traditional funding sources and the increasing inequality of wealth in American are shaping the behavior … -
Playing with Food: A Recipe for Success from the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
In 2011, CFM launched Feeding the Spirit, an exploration of the relationships between museums, food & community. That project lives on in a number of ways—most notably, it played a role in the launch of the ongoing Let’s Move Museums … -
Monday Musings: The End of the Blockbuster Era
Today’s brief musing was prompted by a story I included in our weekly e-newsletter Dispatches from the Future of Museums last week—a video clip of a panel discussion on the Future of the Museum, hosed by the Boston Athenaeum that brought … -
Futurist Friday: Hana Yakiniku
Introducing Hana Yakiniku–an internet connected olfactory device that lets users generate food smells. As this video points out, it has all sorts of applications: for impecunious students, making cheap food smell like a fancy meal …
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