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Centering the Cellphone, Decentering the Museum
Category: Exhibition JournalThis article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. In 2019, an 11th-grader from the District of Columbia talked with … -
Futurist Friday: Coming this Fall, the First Cyborg Olympics
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogOne 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 … -
SWF ISO Museum Position
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThis week’s guest post is an interview with future museum professional Paige LaCour, student in museum management at Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies and volunteer at … -
Food Forward: Eat and drink trends in museums
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the May/June 2015 edition of the Museum magazine. Museums today are leveraging eating, drinking and tasting in new ways for visitors. Institutions … -
Questioning Assumptions: Museums in the 21st Century
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogI hope you have been following my posts on the Forecast of the Future of Museum Ethics being conducted by CFM and the Institute for Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University. CFM and IME staff … -
Unfinished Business
Category: Museum MagazineThis 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 … -
A Greener Tomorrow: Museums Take Steps Toward Sustainability
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the July/August 2012 edition of the Museum magazine. According to AAM’s Code of Ethics for Museums, the common mission of our institutions is their … -
Philosophy of Choice: What if visitors could choose their own intellectual pathways in museum exhibitions?
Category: Museum MagazineWhat if visitors could choose their own intellectual pathways in museum exhibitions? This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s July/August 2024 issue, a benefit of … -
Contemplating Colonial Echoes: Visitor Perspectives in a Portuguese Museum
Category: Exhibition JournalThis exhibition critique first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. Museums and ethnographic collections did not reflect … -
Museums and Personalized Learning
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogTechnology is fueling personalization of products, services, communications and experiences. We explored some of the implications of this trend in TrendsWatch 2015, but the impact and …
