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Search History: Enhancing museum collection access and reducing bias through public input in digital catalogues
Category: Museum MagazineIncluding the public in digital catalogue descriptions will improve access to museum collections and help remove bias. This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s July/August 2024 … -
Museums and Digital Strategy Today
Over the past decade, museums around the world have been adapting to the fast-pace of technical change and have debated a variety of approaches to digital strategy and whether to integrate … -
Campaign for the Abolition of Nouns
Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog“I seem to be a verb”—Buckminster FullerMy beef with nouns:a) they are, at best, approximations—attempts to create clear boundaries for identities that are inherently fuzzy b) As they … -
Leveraging Permanent Collection Objects for Collaboration and Change
Category: On-Demand ProgramsThis is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Throughout the museum field, institutions have been grappling with how to address problematic objects in their … -
Solo Museum Visitors: A 2025 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Data Story
Category: Alliance BlogThis visual Data Story is based on findings from the 2025 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers, a national survey of American museum visitors from AAM and Wilkening Consulting. Every year, the … -
Participation Over Perfection: Why Museum Brands Belong to Everyone
Category: Alliance BlogYour museum’s brand isn’t what you say about your institution. It’s the total experience people have when they visit—across every touchpoint, every day. Not just the exhibits and the gift … -
A Game for (Future) Good: FutureCoast
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThe 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 … -
The Peabody Essex Museum’s Climate + Environment Initiative Seeks to Create a Different Climate Future
Category: Alliance BlogAs 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 … -
What Does a Welcoming Online Collections Portal Look Like?
Category: Alliance BlogIn late February 2020, the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University became the latest institution to launch an online collections portal, a feature that is increasingly … -
Futurist Friday: Internet Fail
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogFuturist 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 …
