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From the President and CEO: Building a Bigger Tent
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s November/December 2024 issue, a benefit of AAM membership. If there’s one thing I believe, after my years of working in this field, … -
2014 TrendsWatch Contenders
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogWith TrendsWatch 2013 hot off the digital presses, Phil and I are already scanning for early signals of the trends we will feature next year. When it comes to scanning, more eyes = better … -
Save Museums, Save the World?
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogI’m cynic when it comes to slogans and tag lines. I basically agree with Ivan Levinson, who wrote that at best tag lines are “like a Japanese haiku – a highly concentrated form of … -
Do Museums Need to Care about Foodies?
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThis guest post is by Susie Wilkening, senior consultant and curator of museum audiences, Reach Advisors. We’ve been blogging a lot about food, leading up to the symposium Feeding the … -
Refresh Your Reading: Summer 2017
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogI know that in reality summer is just as busy as any other season, but somehow it feels to me as if I have a little extra time to breath, step back from my daily news feed and expand my … -
Is History Haunted?: Three museums explain their supernatural programs
Category: Alliance BlogAround October, the weather gets cold, the days get shorter, and the spine begins to tingle. People start looking for eerie activities to scratch the itch, whether haunted houses, horror … -
New TrendsWatch! Navigating a Disrupted Future
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogIn a normal year, TrendsWatch explores the impact emerging forces of change may have on museums in the next decade or longer. Some, such as demographic shifts, affect all museums in the … -
The Future—Brought to You By
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogEver wonder how CFM can deliver so much content to the field for free? I get that question a lot, from museum professionals as I travel, and from staff of other associations wondering how … -
Innovation Lab for Museums, Round 2
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogMetLife Foundation, EmcArts and AAM issued a press release yesterday, announcing the second round of participants in Innovation Lab for Museums. I’m pleased that these three projects … -
Shhhhhh… it’s a surpise!
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThe National Museum of American History has been exploring the American Experience through the study of American food and foodways for the past 15 years through its Food and Wine History …
