Artificial Intelligence: The Rise Of The Intelligent Machine
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.”Alan Kay, …
The Most Important Question to Ask in a Capital Campaign
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Alliance Blog
Nina Simon is the Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and author of The Participatory Museum (2010), The Art of Relevance (2016) and the popular Museum 2.0 …
Annual Meeting Featured Speaker Roundup
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Alliance Blog
Hello from a sunny and warm St. Louis, MO. We’re learning so much about Gateways for Understanding at the AAM Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. Today I thought I would give you a quick …
Throwback Thursday: Revisiting the future workforce
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This week’s Dispatches from the Future of Museums features a story about a report from the Labor Department that shows the rate of volunteerism in the U.S,. is the lowest it has been …
Strategizing Me: Make a Personal Career Plan
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Museum Magazine
This article appeared in the March/April 2017 issue of Museum magazine. Effective leaders create mission statements to shape their museum careers. The one thing that can be said …
Point of View: Repairing Leader-Staff Trust
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Museum Magazine
Claims about integrity, benevolence, and sincerity are at the heart of many internal organizational conflicts. This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s May/June 2025 issue, a …
On-Demand Programs
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March/April 2024 Preview
In this issue: Mar/Apr 2024 issue By the Numbers: Museum Volunteers Explore some of the data from 5,340 museum volunteers who participated in the 2023 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers. (US …
CARE-apy: Psychological Science and the Visitor Experience
When visitors leave a museum, in what ways are they different than when they walked in? What intellectual connections did visitors make with the ideas and artifacts with which they …
The Concept of An Exhibition
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2013 edition of Museum magazine. An excerpt from Exhibitions · Concept Planning and Design, The AAM Press, 2012. Museum objects are like …
When an Artist Becomes Director
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Community Engagement & Impact
I want to change people’s lives through art. Simple as that. I thought I would accomplish this goal as an artist, but as my career progressed, doors opened in a different direction. I …
Life’s Persistent Problems: TED Talk June 2040
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Sylvea here. I’d like to introduce Dr. Tom P. Abeles, editor of On the Horizon, a foresight journal on education. His #FutureFictionFriday story is a 2040 TEDTalk about continuous …