Leadership

Tate Director delivers hard line on the future of museums

Directors of Tate and MCA join in launching the acquisition of artworks across their institutions with the assistance of Qantas; photo ArtsHub When Sir Nicholas Serota left the directorship …
By Gina Fairley, ArtsHub United Kingdom

Museums have a duty to be political

By Jillian Steinhauer, The Art Newspaper

A Woman Who Is a Rare Find Among Museum Leaders

By Farah Nayeri, Nytimes

Cultivating Lifelong Appreciation

By Mary Ellen Collins

Do museum directors need curatorial experience?

By Rober Hewison and Nicholas Penny, Apollo Magazine

Leadership, and Why You Need a SWOT Analysis (and a Personal Board of Directors)

By Greg Stevens

Museum Leadership, Organizational Readiness, and Institutional Transformation

By Marsha Semmel

Reflections on AAM’s Board Diversity Training

By Laura Lott

Museum Leadership and Growing Enormous Pumpkins

By Trevor Jones

The LMN Roving Reporter

By Christine Jeffers

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From Stodgy to Story – Glensheen’s historic transformation

Image of a Lucie sitting near an open window which is fuzzy in the background. She is wearing a pale green top and dark rimmed glasses. She has shoulder length wavy dirty blond hair.
By Lucie B. Amundsen
Alliance Blog
In 2013, it was clear that Glensheen, the historic Congdon estate on Lake Superior was in decline—and it wasn’t just a brick and mortar problem. “Our attendance that year was at a low of …

Exploring the Future Through the Museum of Banned Objects

By Elizabeth Merritt
Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
One way futurists expand our thinking is through the creation of immersive scenarios: physical embodiments of possible futures. In one of my favorite examples, futurist Jake Dunagan …

Museums & Climate Change: A Global Response

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By Sarah Sutton
Environmental Sustainability
At the first International Symposium on Museums & Climate Change*, held April 10 – 13 in Manchester, UK, seventy-five or more attendees gathered to explore how museums can and should …