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Double Duty: How a historic botanical garden reached a balance in managing its plant and art collections
Category: Alliance BlogAll museums face many challenges maintaining and displaying their collections. But these challenges are exacerbated when collections of vastly different needs and care protocols share the … -
Synesthesia: Multisensory experiences for a multisensory world
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogRemember when you looked at a painting, listened to music, tasted your food, smelled perfume and touched a (real, physical) object? The rich messiness of the five human senses has always … -
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the July/August 2013 edition of Museum magazine. Managed landscapes at museums enhance the visitor experience. When visitors step into an urban museum … -
AI Adolescence
Category: Museum MagazineSuccess in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. —Stephen Hawking This article … -
We Hacked a Museum Exhibition
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogYou may have been following Nina Simon’s account of the Hack the Museum Camp recently hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, or perhaps you read Paul Orselli’s letter from … -
Future of Education Road-Trip: Some Thoughts and Thanks
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogOctavia in action Hi, Nicole here. Sage and I would like to thank all of the museum professionals, students, educators and artists who gave of themselves to support the inaugural Future of … -
Engaging Descendant Communities in Inclusive Programing, Exhibitions, and Interpretation on Slavery
This recording is from the Future of Museums Summit held November 1-2, 2023. Engaging descendant communities in the interpretation of slavery involves addressing the historical … -
Beyond the Tour: Building Trust by Reimagining Public Programming
Category: On-Demand ProgramsThis is a recorded session from the 2025 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Museums are trusted to be good stewards not only of their collections but also of their communities. Fulfilling …
