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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 … -
Where Should Museums Look for the Workforce of the Future?
Intel just hired Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas to be their Director of Creative Innovation. Google hired futurist and noted transhumanist (“the singularity is coming”) Ray Kurtzweil as its Director of Engineering. President Obama just … -
Advocating for the Future of Education
From Getmot.com I’m going to interview Abraham Lincoln. You can help. February 25-26 is the 5th annual Museums Advocacy Day. This year the Alliance is offering a free virtual conference so you can take part even if you can’t get to D.C. … -
No Future
The Field Museum of Natural History recently announced that it is cutting its budget by 7%—$5 million from its overall budget of ~$70 million—with $3 million of this coming out of the science departments.The museum has begun a process that … -
Will You Lose Your Museum Job to a Robot?
Drawing produced by participants in the CFM “Drawing Club” event at the 2012 AAM conference OK, maybe not to a robot, but to increasingly sophisticated automation. This question is prompted by a report released last month by … -
Roundup of Recent News on Accessible Design
With more and more museums pushing content to personal digital devices, we need to remember who we may be leaving out. When Phil and I talk about the digital divide, we are usually thinking of an economic barrier—the shrinking (but … -
Monday Musings: Accessible to Whom?
Another in an occasional series of 15 minute musings on items in the news last week. I’m working on a blog post for tomorrow on museums’ efforts to be accessible to a broad range of audiences. (And it is slow going—please lob stories … -
Finding Community: Engaging Diverse Audiences in a Historic House
In April, 2007, a small but influential group of historic house professionals, association and foundation staff gathered at Kykuit, the historic Rockefeller Estate in Pocantico Hills, NY, for the Forum on Historic Site Stewardship in the …
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