Monday Musing: When Free is Not Enough
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Monday musings are my way of sharing brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently, both to help clarify my thinking an in the hopes of generating discussion and …
Monday Musing: On Small Dead Things
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15 minutes of top-of-my-head thoughts on a story featured in last week’s Dispatches from theFuture of Museums e-newsletter. One of the things that drove me out of graduate school (besides …
Monday Musing: Millennial Anti-Materialism
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I read an article in the Washington Post last Friday that resonated with some nascent thoughts on the role of museums shaped by audiences born between 1980 and 2000. The story, by Jura …
Monday Musing: TrendsWatch Watch
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Here’s a quick roundup of recent stories related to the themes in TrendsWatch 2015 (Haven’t got your copy yet? Download the free PDF here. Print copies will be available in the AAM …
Monday Musing: Quantifying the Sacrifice Measure
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I’ve been sitting on this figure for awhile. Steven Lubar (@lubar) from Brown University lobbed the associated NPR story at me on Twitter in response to one of my posts on museum …
Monday Musing: Making it Personal with Telepresence
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This video caught my attention this morning: a crowdfunding pitch for what is billed as “the world’s first social innovation telepresence experience.” This system, …
Monday Musing: Paying the Rent(al)
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You may have noticed I snuck in an extra post on the Blog today, encouraging you to start as soon as possible on session proposals for the 2015 AAM meeting in Atlanta. Now back to the …
Monday Musing: Mapping Quiet Spaces
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These musings started as my self assigned “15 minute to comment on a story in the news.” I’ve been blowing my time limit, lately, so today I’m setting my stopwatch …
Monday Musing: who’s minding the kids?
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This week’s Musing is about an article features in Dispatches from the future of Museums last week: “Gates’ $100M Philanthropic Venture inBloom Dies after Parents Say “No …
Monday Musings: Museum as Creative Hotspot
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Last Friday I read a thought-provoking post from Jasper Visser about the use of alternative workspaces. “Why not work a couple of days each week from a bar, incubator or creative …
Monday Musing: All the World’s a Museum
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Due to a technical glitch last week’s Dispatches from the Future of Museums is coming out later today. When it does appear in your in-box, take a look at this article: Dubai To Add …
Monday Musings: What Price Nonprofit?
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Today’s brief musing was prompted by an article this past Saturday in the New York Times: It May be a Nonprofit Theater, but the Tickets Look For-ProfitIt lists the ways in which …