Monday Musing: Impact Investing
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Usually when I attend a conference, I hope to come away with a few good thoughts, maybe a lead on a person or resource I can look up afterwards. Rarely does a conference change the way I …
Monday Musing: Orphan Collections
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A Facebook post the week before last from staff at the natural history museum at the University of Louisiana in Monroe caused a stir in the museum world. The post shared a directive from …
Monday Musing: Travel and Tourism
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Among the stories I included in Dispatches from the Future of Museums last week was a piece from Quartz Media speculating that the US could be on the verge of “tourism shock.” I’m worried …
Monday Musing: Thinking the Unthinkable
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The other week I included a sobering story from the New Yorker in Dispatches from the Future of Museums*. The Really Big One, by Kathryn Shulz, looks at the Cascadia fault line …
Monday Musing: Museums and “the Flag”
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I’ve been following the chorus calling for the removal of the Confederate battle flag from…well, everywhere. The Alabama and South Carolina Capitols, the physical shelves of Walmart and the …
Monday Musing: Scholarship and Copyright
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I’m recommitting to my Monday “musings”–which started as a self-assignment to take no more than 15 minutes to share my thoughts on something I read in the past week. …
Monday Musing: On the Front Lines
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Dear Seb*,Thank you for tweeting me the link to this articleArt gallery ad makes clear wish for an educated staff about the Art Gallery of New South Wales replacing volunteers at the front …
Monday Musing: Data Epiphanies
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Today’s musing is sparked by an article in Forbes about a taxi company in Stockholm that devised a brilliant way to link the data generated by all its rides with other geospatial data …
Monday Musing: Mirror Mirror
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Of course, the answer to that classic question (“who’s the fairest of them all?”) is supposed to be “you—of course. You look fabulous.” But whom can we trust to tell the truth, rather than …
Monday Musings: Accessible to Whom?
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Another in an occasional series of 15 minute musings on items in the news last week. I’m working on a blog post for tomorrow on museums’ efforts to be accessible to a broad range of …
Monday Musing: Up Periscope
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The week before last I took a tour of the British Museum’s “Defining Beauty” exhibit, hosted by historian Dan Snow (who has a gorgeously plummy accent. Bonus). I did this …
Monday Musing: Managed Retreat
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Did you know that over a third (34.6 percent) of US museums sit are within 100 kilometers of the coast? A quarter of those are in areas that score very high on the Coastal Vulnerability …