Surveys & Reports

Questioning Assumptions: Is Inspiration More Important than Knowledge?

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s guest post is by Conny C. Graft, a consultant in research and evaluation based in Williamsburg, Virginia. Her keynote on the future of museum audiences, delivered at the Small Museums Association Conference this past spring …
Practical Futurism: a Case Study

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week’s guest blogger is Bill Martin, director of the Valentine Richmond History Center in Virginia. Bill was one of our panelists on the session “Practical Futurism” at the AAM annual meeting in Houston last week, and shares how his …
A Global View of the Future

By Elizabeth Merritt

Bonjour, привует, Guten Tag, سلام ! This is a shout-out to and call for input from CFM’s international followers. In the past month, the traffic to this blog has come from: United States: 5,634 France: 1,173 Canada: 334 United Kingdom: …
SWF ISO Museum Position

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week’s guest post is an interview with future museum professional Paige LaCour, student in museum management at Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies and volunteer at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. …
A Twebevent Wrap Up

By Elizabeth Merritt

Late last month, we ran the first of what will (hopefully) be many twebevents. With Cecilia Garibay and Lisa Sasaki joining Elizabeth Merritt and Phil Katz, we spent an hour on Twitter sharing information about demographics and museums, …
By Elizabeth Merritt

Andrew Masich is the director of the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, and a member of the AAM Accreditation Commission. Andy’s narrative illustrates the recent research by Reach Advisors, exploring how childhood memories influence …
Flex your Twitter Muscles and Prep to Tackle the Diversity Challenge!

By Elizabeth Merritt

Are you psyched about this Thursday’s Diversity Twebevent? Betty Farrell, Cecilia Garibay and Lisa Sasaki, are primed and ready to tweet with you on Feb. 24, from 2–3 p.m. (ET), exploring how museums are tackling demographic change. Full …
Unleash the Power of Twitter to Tackle the Diversity Challenge!

By Elizabeth Merritt

On Feb. 24, 2–3 p.m. (ET), CFM will host the Demographic Transformation and the Future of Museums twebevent, and you’re invited. Have you ever attended a twebevent? Me neither, but that isn’t stopping me from throwing one!AAM released the …
Foreseeing the Future through Fiction

By Elizabeth Merritt

Good fiction tells the truth about something that never happened. Good futurist fiction tells the truth about something that may yet happen. That being so, reading (or watching) futurist fiction is a valuable part of scanning and …
How many museum educators does it take….

By Elizabeth Merritt

….to respond to Elizabeth Merritt’s “Call to Action” issued in Museum related to the CFM’s Demographic Transformation report? Apparently, 40 is a good start. Word cloud of participants’ responses to the question “What lingering thoughts, …