Spring 2024: Alternative Realities

Features

How To Survive: Considering Sustainability And Care In Exhibitions By Francesca Du Brock, Ryan Kenny, And Rachel Boesenberg

Mission Future: An Experiential Future By Rae Ostman, Allison Anderson, Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann, And Paul Martin

Climate Solutions: How Audience Research Helped Us Support Visitors In Envisioning Alternative Climate Realities By Katie Chandler, Jen Kretser, And Stephanie Ratcliffe

Indigenous Futurism In History Museums: Looking To The Future To Understand The Past By Jeremy Morton And Virgil Ortiz

Could-Be Museums And What Could Be: Reflections On Alternative Museum Practices By Cheryl Klimaszewski, Phd, MS-LIS

Chillin’ Like It’s 1986: Successes, Setbacks, And Philosophical Considerations In The Immersive Rec Room Space Of Growing Up X By Erika Holst And Jacqueline Hudson, Phd

Separation Anxiety: Rethinking Label Strategies In (Re)Framing Conversations By Shannon Perich

Beyond The Mannequin: Indigenous Bodies, Presence, And Textiles In Two Exhibitions At The Museo Textil De Oaxaca By Ariadna Solís And Hector M. Meneses Lozano

Departments

Editor’s Letter By Jeanne Normand Goswami

Exhibits Newsline By Jenny-Sayre Ramberg

Q&A: Fawn Douglas and Travis Helms In Conversation

Exhibition Critique: Accessible Or Elite? The MIT Museum’s New Building Does Both By Amy Freesun

Book Review: Accessible: Idea Colliders: The Future Of Science Museums By Set David Solís Adame

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