Futurist Friday: Internet Fail
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Futurist Friday is a series of occasional posts featuring recommending reading, viewing or listening resources to expand your thinking and fuel your forecasting. When I teach forecasting …
The Peabody Essex Museum’s Climate + Environment Initiative Seeks to Create a Different Climate Future
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Alliance Blog
As the director of an interactive art and nature space, I’ve included climate change as a topic in many shows and programs over the years. But until recently, I had convinced myself that …
Bringing a Collections Catalogue to Life
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
When the Walker Art Center launched their redesigned website in 2011, it was hailed as a “game-changer,” changing the focus of the site from the museum as destination to the museum as …
A Game for (Future) Good: FutureCoast
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
The first trend CFM tackled, with the help of futurist and games-designer Dr. Jane McGonigal, was the rise of “gaming for good” and the potential for games-design to make museum experiences …
Becoming a Data Startup – Part 2
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Alliance Blog
It’s time again for our next installment of Becoming a Data Startup! For those of you who read along in our last post, you learned some simple tips and tricks for formatting your data that …
Museums in Good Health
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Museum Magazine
The article originally appeared in the January/February 2014 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of membership with the Alliance. An adapted excerpt from Museums On Call: How Museums Are …
You Get What You Measure
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Two watch words often thrown about regarding the future of museums are “transparency” and “accountability.” The former is getting easier and easier to achieve—what excuse is there, really, …
Museopunks Episode 36: Queering Your Museum
The end of Pride Month does not mean that we should stop talking or thinking about LGBTQIA+ inclusion and queer curating practices in museums. This month, we’re joined by Craig Middleton …
Unschooling—a Fringe Future of Education
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Earlier this month I blogged about the future of education—a theme CFM will be exploring for some time. As part of this exploration, I will share scanning hits—news, hints, pictures and …
“Connecting With The Story”: A conversation with author JULIA ALVAREZ
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Global Thinking
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2010 edition of the Museum magazine. Julia Alvarez may have only lived in the Dominican Republic from the age of 3 months through 10 years, …
Museopunks Episode 26: Decolonize the Museum!
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Decolonization
The vision of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine, describes how the museum “will reflect and realize the values of decolonization in all of its practices, working with the Wabanaki …
Microclimates: A Greener Future for Collection Care
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Alliance Blog
There are many options available for museums to address climate action and become more sustainable, but recent work at two institutions has highlighted the value in one particular method: …