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 …
Visitors with Vision Loss
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2012 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Art Beyond Sight/Art Education for the Blind (ABS) encourages the visual arts …
Futurist Friday: Seeing the Bigger Picture
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
You can follow FiveBooks (& their cutemanatee mascot) on Twitter@five_books Today, for your weekly fix of futurism, I recommend you bop over to the Five Books site to read …
Outside the Collection Box: Connecting community with collections via augmented reality
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Alliance Blog
Immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), and cross reality (XR) are quickly gaining momentum as a mass media tool deployable in all …
To B Corps or not to B Corps—A Case Study
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Some people think that because museums are nonprofits, they are not allowed to make money. Cue my mantra: nonprofit is a tax status, not a business strategy. A financially successful …
Collaboration for Community Impact
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Museum Magazine
After Facing Change, four historical societies in the Twin Cities are working together to better engage the African American communities …
Living in a Wild Future
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
In March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world for Americans and American museums, my job shifted from focusing on the far future to the immediate present. As museum leaders …
CSISOS: Cool Sessions in Search of Speakers
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
The call for proposals for the AAM 2013 annual meeting closes on Friday, Aug. 24. As I’ve explained in an earlier post, this year AAM is encouraging people to post early drafts of their …
From Theory to Practice: Applying Futures Studies
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
A guest post contributed by Joe Cavanaugh, museum director of the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas. Joe was one of Elizabeth Merritt’s classmates in the …
Tech Talk: Microsoft’s Library & Museum Digital Transformation Framework
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On-Demand Programs: Digital Programming
This is a recorded Tech Talk from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. Presented by Microsoft Transcript Catherine Devine: Hi everyone, my name is Catherine Devine and …
Full Spectrum: Addressing the Needs of Kids with Autism
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2011 edition of the Museum magazine. An average sixth-grade class is touring your galleries. Most of the children are only mildly …
Toxic Philanthropy
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
We live in a time in which the public is hyper sensitive to the ethics of where money comes from, and where it goes. As I observed in TrendsWatch 2015, nonprofits don’t get a free pass in …