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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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” …
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 …
“Wait, What? Toddlers in an Art Museum?”
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Alliance Blog
Caitlin Mock Wilson, a mother of two young children and a Clyfford Still Museum (CSM) member, often went to museums with her parents as a young child. When she had her own children, she …
What YouTube Can Do for Museums
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2016 issue of Museum magazine. How museums can use YouTube to engage visitors and extend their reach. “YouTube is the new TV”—or so …
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 …