The Museum of the Future—your vision reflected here?
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
A friend who works with, but not in, museums has asked me for predictions regarding characteristics of the museum of the future. He is working on an interesting project to create a …
Seeds Of Change: Museums tap food trends, reap rewards.
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2011 edition of Museum magazine. Considering all the signs that read “No food or drinks allowed,” most museum visitors …
Futurist Friday: Coming this Fall, the First Cyborg Olympics
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
One of the themes I explore in TrendsWatch 2016 is the blurring boundaries between ability, disability and augmented ability. We are experiencing a surge in “assistive …
Chatting About Museums with ChatGPT
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Two months ago, the research and development lab OpenAI released ChatGPT, an interactive “chatbot” powered by artificial intelligence. Chatbots aren’t new (I’ve been writing about …
Curatorial Chatbot: An Experiment with AI at the Nasher Museum of Art
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
CFM has explored museum applications of artificial intelligence (AI) since 2017, notably business analytics, customer service, collections data analysis, and provenance research. Today on …
Unfinished Business
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. An adult diaper, a pill box, a plain spiral notebook, a yellow sponge, a mess of bank documents, a …
How the Delaware Art Museum is Centering Community Voices in Interpretive Planning
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Alliance Blog
In 2018, the Delaware Art Museum (DelArt) began a radically inclusive approach to reinstallation planning, integrating community voices at every stage through focus groups, iterative …
Museum Design 2034: Perpetual Beta
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
I blogged last week about how futurists write stories of the future based on trends we can observe now. This helps people explore what their lives, and their organizations, might look like …
Collecting Girlhood: Why the new activist museum is virtual
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Alliance Blog
The assumption that museums must be permanent buildings with physical collections is no longer sustainable. With decreased funding, increased competition, and the burden of care, museums …
Natural History Museums as Superman’s Crystal Palace
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Today, guest blogger Henry McGhie (seen below), Head of Collections and Curator of Zoology at the Manchester Museum, shares his thoughts on how museums can empower visitors to become …
Asset-Based Community Development: Shifting Museums’ Center of Gravity
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Alliance Blog
Twenty-two years ago, I was leading the strategic planning process for a museum education department when I noticed something interesting. Even though we called ourselves the “education” …
Agents Of Change: How IMPs Can Inspire & Partner With Their Clients
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On-Demand Programs: Career Management
Handout of additional resources Slides from webinar What does it take to mobilize institutions to question their role in society, shift their culture, and better serve their communities? …