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Museums: Essential Elements in the New World of Education
I’ve been writing a lot about the future of education: how we are on the cusp of transformational change, and how museums may play a vital role in the next educational era. Today Steven Lubar, director of the Haffenreffer Museum of … -
The Freegan Museum: Notes from an Experiment in Progress.
This Monday I posted some brief thoughts on free museum memberships, sparked by the experiment being launched by the Dallas Museum of Art. Bob Barzan, director of the Modesto Art Museum wrote to share his museum’s experience with going … -
The Genomics of Art, Education & Commerce: Part II
This is the second of a two posts sharing my interview with Christine Kuan, Chief Curator and Director of Strategic Partnerships at Art.sy—a web platform designed to help users browse and purchase art. Part 1 [insert link] explored … -
Monday Musings: The Price of a Free Membership
Monday musings are my way of sharing brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently, with the hope that it will generate discussion and response. With that in mind, what do you think of this?: I’ve been following with … -
Should Museums Be Thankful?
Last week, before I began my big cooking blitz, I tried to make a list of things museums should be thankful for, but I came up dry. I’d spent the week trying to beef up my political scanning, and the results were pretty depressing. No … -
The Genomics of Art, Education & Commerce: Part I
Recently I blogged about Art.sy, a service built on “The Art Genome Project” that enables users to discover, learn about, and collect art that is suggested to them via a mathematical algorithm. That post provoked so much interesting … -
Monday Musings: What Could Disappear?
I’ve blogged beforeabout the importance of factoring climate trends into long term planning and risk assessment. Continued news of museums in New York and New Jersey coping with the aftermath of Frankenstorm Sandy, and the UK suffering … -
Guess Who Endorsed You! And Why Should You Care?
About two months ago I started to get emails with the subject line “so-and-so has endorsed you,” originating from LinkedIn “on behalf of” the person doing the endorsing. At first I thought it was some kind of scam/spam. It’s legit, though, … -
The Role of the Campus Museum in an Age of Distributed Education
The “future of the campus museum” discussion continues with this guest post by Rebecca Nagy, director of the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, a trustee of the Association of Art Museum Directors and President of … -
Will You Know Innovation When You See It?
Last week my virtual self gave a brief intro via Skype to Phelan Fretz’s session on Innovation at the NEMA meeting in Burlington, Vermont. Phelan (who is the executive director of the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center in Burlington) …
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