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Is It Time to Break Your Museum’s Organizational Mold?

By Mark Sundlov
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Category: Financial Sustainability
Over the course of the twentieth century, and into today, museums have witnessed dramatic changes in their organizational and funding environments—some driven from within the museum field, …

A Snoopy license plate delivers more than mere peanuts to California museums

By Phil Kohlmetz
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Category: Advocacy
A special interest license plate is certainly an unconventional way to raise money for museums, and Snoopy’s path to plate-dom was certainly unconventional. But in late 2015, after nearly …

Stone Soup

By Elizabeth Merritt
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Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
We’ve reached another milestone in the celebration of the Center for the Future of Museum’s first decade of work: the 10th anniversary of the CFM Blog. I think that the first …

The Power of a Paid Internship: Creating pathways to careers in museums

By Makeba Clay
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Category: Labor
In 2015, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation issued a report on diversity in art museums that reinforced what is obvious to anyone working in or affiliated with the industry: non-Hispanic white …