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What Will Become of Interactive Art When Museums Reopen?
Category: Alliance BlogSupport Free COVID-19 Resources for the Field The current crisis is taking a distressing financial toll on cultural organizations, and AAM is no different. The Alliance Blog is supported by … -
Virtual Programs for Children—What Do Parents Want Now?
Category: Alliance BlogAfter 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 … -
Introducing the TrendsWatch 2018 Scenarios
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 … -
Labor 3.0: Museums and Co-working Spaces
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogFinding a stable business model for museums in the 21st century is going to take more than patching the old income streams. The goals and expectations of government funding and philanthropy … -
Futurist Friday: Exploring the Future of Education
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogI’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 … -
Digital Innovations in Collections Stewardship and Access at Jewish Museums
Join us for a moderated discussion with two Jewish museum leaders who have used digital tools and technology to support collections stewardship, greater collections access, and rich public … -
A Free Survey to Measure a Sense of Belonging at Museums
Category: Alliance BlogNot everyone wants to visit a museum. This is in part because of operational issues like cost, location, schedule, but these aren’t the whole story. Some don’t even reach the point of … -
Creating the New
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogHow many of you know of dysfunctional relationships between universities and museums? Hark–I hear a forest of hands rise across the land. Too often colleges and universities fail to … -
Museopunks Episode 40: A very human exhibition
Being Human, the new permanent gallery at Wellcome Collection explores what it means to be human in the 21st century. In creating the exhibition, the Wellcome Collection worked with two …