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Catching up with Jeannette Ickovics: 2011 Feeding the Spirit Keynote Speaker
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogCan a museum win the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Childhood Obesity Challenge? With your help, maybe yes. Read on. Last winter, Jeannette Ickovics from the Yale School of Public Health … -
The Future In The Stars: An Interview With Neil Degrasse Tyson
Category: Museum MagazineThis 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 … -
A Liberatory Framework: Critical race theory can help museums commit to anti-racism and combat anti-blackness
Category: Museum MagazineThis 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 … -
The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2019
Category: Alliance BlogIt 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 … -
3 Trauma-Informed Practices for Museums to Follow
Category: Alliance BlogEarlier 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 … -
Students Solve a History Mystery and Teach a Lesson in Collaboration
Category: Alliance BlogFourth 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 … -
Reinventing the Historic House Museum: MJT meets the Civil War
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogHere 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?
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogIn 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 … -
Future Chat: Managing Digital Risk
Your museum has embraced the digital world. Digitized collections, an asset management system, ticketing, customer relations system, volunteer and event management, and other solutions to … -
Putting Social Science to Work in Climate Change Interpretation
Category: On-Demand ProgramsPublic 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 …
