Monday Musing: Travel and Tourism

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
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: Well well

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
To file under Financial Sustainability, subheading “Potential New Income Streams”:I just finished reading an article in Fast Company on the surge in “wellness …

Monday Musing: Electoral futures

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
In today’s brief musing I want to draw your attention to a piece by Philip Kennicott in yesterday’s Washington Post.In “Would Donald Trump make art great again?” …

Monday Musing: unbiased wages

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
A few weeks ago I tweeted about a post by the estimable Vu Le in which he argued that “basing pay on salary history is a harmful, borderline-unethical practice that we need to …

Monday Musing: the future of philanthropy

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I included an essay by David Callahan in last week’s edition of Dispatches from the Future of Museums because I was struck by his projections of how government budget cuts may promote …

Monday Musing: Prequel to a Museum

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Monday musings are my way of sharing “brain blorts”: brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently, both to help clarify my thinking an in the hopes of …

Monday Musing: Thinking the Unthinkable

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
 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 that runs …

Monday Musing: Museums and “the Flag”

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
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: Up Periscope

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
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: Scholarship and Copyright

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
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. …

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