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Curation, Community and Cat Videos
Last year, as I travelled the country talking about museum innovation, pop-up culture and other trends, the most popular story I told was about a project launched by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. I received so many follow-up … -
Students in the Museum: From Inside the Ivy Covered Walls
We’ve featured a series of posts on this blog that explore the Campus Art Museums in the 21st Centuryreport issued last year by the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago. Looking back, I realize that we have heard from … -
CFM Returns to the Future with TrendsWatch 2013
The Alliance has just released TrendsWatch 2013: Back to the Future, CFM’s second annual watch list of important emergent trends. If we’re right, and the trends we’ve tagged this year shape the evolution of museums, a museum visit in the … -
Fuel Your Futurist Imagination: 6 Artistic Visions of the Future
The BBC is running a contest, encouraging people to enter stills or video/animation depicting their personal visions of the future. They kicked off the “What If?” project by inviting six artists from around the world to seed … -
Open Enrollment: Digital Badges for Museum Futurists
When was the last time you looked at your resume? Pull it up on your screen and take a good look—it may be on the verge of becoming an anachronism. Here’s an opportunity for you to explore the resume of the future by earning some 21st … -
Futurist Friday: Apocalypse for One
Yesterday Stuart Candy, on his Skeptical Futuryst Blog, drew readers’ attention to a dark, elaborate scenario that played out on UK television last year. “Derren Brown: Apocalypse” is a two-part special that Candy … -
Pop-ups and Emerging Museums
Recent posts on the CFM Blog on pop-up museums & exhibits have provoked a lot of interest, so I invited Katie Spencer, executive director of the Museum of Durham History, to contribute yet another perspective. Her museum, still under … -
Museums, Cubed
Last month, Nate Rudy shared his hope that museums would pop up more often in storefronts to help revitalize small towns. This week, guest blogger Leslie Davol, pushes us to go even further, based on her experience creating distributed … -
High Debt–No Job: What Field Are You In?
A Monday Musing sparked by an article in the NYT yesterday on a crisis in one particular field of training. Let’s see: –80% of current graduates are women. –The available trainiing programs are increasing the number of … -
A Few Optimistic Futures
I’m working on a couple scenarios on the future of education to share during Museums Advocacy Day training next Monday. This exercise reminded me yet again how easy it is to “go dark” when imagining potential futures. Maybe I’m just a …
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