The Future In The Stars: An Interview With Neil Degrasse Tyson
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2011 edition of the Museum magazine. Museum director, astrophysicist and television personality. There are not many who claim to be all …
The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2019
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Alliance Blog
It was a whirlwind year of museums making themselves over for our changing world. Evolving ethics, social and technological transformation, and the looming presence of the bottom line are …
Students Solve a History Mystery and Teach a Lesson in Collaboration
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Alliance Blog
Fourth and fifth graders at Silverton Elementary School reversed roles with teachers and set an example of how museums and schools can work together to broaden the telling of a community’s …
A Liberatory Framework: Critical race theory can help museums commit to anti-racism and combat anti-blackness
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. In an effort to provide the broadest possible access to this critical …
3 Trauma-Informed Practices for Museums to Follow
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Alliance Blog
Earlier this year, I presented at MuseumNext’s Museums, Health, and Wellbeing Summit about what we risk by not integrating trauma-informed practices and values into our work. In my talk, I …
Reinventing the Historic House Museum: MJT meets the Civil War
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Here is another brief brain jotting as I take a break from writing TrendsWatch 2015. I’ve been vastly enjoying blog postsand tweets from Frank Vagnone, author of the Anarchist Guide to …
Are Museums the Rightful Home for Confederate Monuments?
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
In a chapter titled “Capture the Flag: the struggle over representation and identity,” CFM’s TrendsWatch 2016 explored the growing pressure for museums to play a role in the detoxification …
Putting Social Science to Work in Climate Change Interpretation
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On-Demand Programs
Public engagement efforts on climate change must start with the fundamental recognition that people have different psychological, cultural, and political reasons for acting—or not acting—to …
Introducing the TrendsWatch 2018 Scenarios
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Future Forecasting
Why Tell Stories About the Future? Plans based on one anticipated future are brittle: they are prone to failure if the underlying assumptions turn out to be wrong. Many a strategic plan has …
Virtual Programs for Children—What Do Parents Want Now?
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Alliance Blog
After of year of chaos, anguish, and reflection, the world is entering a new phase—perhaps “post-pandemic,” maybe the “new normal”—it will take a while to settle on the right label. Last …
Futurist Friday: Exploring the Future of Education
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I’ve been blogging a lot about the future of education, and the coming of a new educational era. If we are on the cusp of transformational change, it’s very important for museum futurists …
The Future of Museum Conferences, continued: Why Not Run a Conference Like Maker Faire?
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I just got back from an intense, exhausting, exhilarating week in northern California that encompassed two very different conference-like events–the Creativity and Collaboration …