Playing with Food: A Recipe for Success from the Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
In 2011, CFM launched Feeding the Spirit, an exploration of the relationships between museums, food & community. That project lives on in a number of ways—most notably, it played a role …

2014 TrendsWatch Contenders

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
With 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 Blog
I’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 Blog
  This 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 Blog
I 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 …

New TrendsWatch! Navigating a Disrupted Future

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
In 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 …

Innovation Lab for Museums, Round 2

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
MetLife 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 …

The Future—Brought to You By

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Ever 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 …

Shhhhhh… it’s a surpise!

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
The 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 …

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