Food Forward: Eat and drink trends in museums
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2015 edition of the Museum magazine. Museums today are leveraging eating, drinking and tasting in new ways for visitors. Institutions …
The Museum Sector and the Paris Agreement
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Alliance Blog
Sarah Sutton is principal of Sustainable Museums, a museum consultancy. She is also a member of the PIC-Green Professional Network. The very day President Donald Trump announced that the …
Collecting Girlhood: Why the new activist museum is virtual
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Alliance Blog
The assumption that museums must be permanent buildings with physical collections is no longer sustainable. With decreased funding, increased competition, and the burden of care, museums …
Wild Times: In which social service nonprofits save the day.
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Future Forecasting
Introduction to This Scenario A wild card scenario explores the kind of low-probability, high-impact event that can disrupt the best-laid plans. Though you shouldn’t obsess about these …
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 …
A Growing Backlash to DEI
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Do you remember seeing this picture attempting to illustrate the difference between equality and equity? Now it also illustrates the latest battleground in the new culture wars. While a …
Labor of Love: Revaluing Museum Work
This post was originally published on Medium, December 20, 2017. Over the last few years, museum workers have been increasingly vocal about job dissatisfaction. At the 2015 American …
What’s the secret ingredient in the Tsongas Industrial History Center’s success?
Officially opened 25 years ago as a partnership between the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Graduate School of Education and Lowell National Historical Park, the Tsongas Industrial …
The Most Important Question to Ask in a Capital Campaign
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Alliance Blog
Nina Simon is the Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and author of The Participatory Museum (2010), The Art of Relevance (2016) and the popular Museum 2.0 …
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 …
Artificial Intelligence The Rise Of The Intelligent Machine
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a …
Privacy in a Watchful World: What have you got to hide?
In a world where companies and governments can, and increasingly do, track vast amounts of personal information about our habits, preferences, behavior, communications and even our …