Global Thinking

AAM Spotlight: Wesam Mohamed, Curator at Ministry of Antiquities, Egypt

Through support from the Getty Foundation, Wesam Mohamed was able to attend the 2018 AAM Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ. Hear about her journey as a museum professional and how the …

European museums may loan back some works stolen from former colonies

James McAuley and Rick Noack, Washington Post

Confronting Canada

Karine Duhamel

Full Engagement

Yael Grauer

Medellín, an Urban Palimpsest

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Attending Museum Conferences

Cristina Toma

El museo, actor sociopolítico / The Museum as socio-political actor

¿Qué es la valentía en las organizaciones? / Brave Organizations

El arte de ser relevantes / The Art of Relevance

Ecologías Queer / Queer Ecology

What Does the Future Hold for China’s Museums and Art Districts?

Dominic Ngai, That's Online

Recovering Cultural Property Across the World: Interview with the FBI Art Crime program manager Tim Carpenter

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The Joker in the Museum Planning Pack

Elizabeth Merritt

Center for the Future Of Museums Blog

The fourth and final installment of TrendsWatch 2018’s scenarios of the future is now up on the web. Wild Times explores what might happen if fate deals our field an unexpected card: the …

Wild Times: In which social service nonprofits save the day.

Elizabeth Merritt

Future Forecasting

Introduction to This Scenario A wild card scenario explores the kind of low-probability, high-impact event that can disrupt the best-laid plans. Though you shouldn’t obsess about these …

A Case Study—in Progress—of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Brand Refresh

Linda Butler and Jennifer Sonderby

Mission & Institutional Planning

With the arrival of a new director and CEO in 2016, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco expanded its largely encyclopedic approach to art history by introducing a curatorial department …