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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 … -
Futurist Friday: Author Author
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogTuring Test: Museum edition. Could a computer program write an exhibit label or an exhibit catalog that made visitors believe a human museum worker penned the text?There’s a lot of … -
Inviting Children In: Valuing The Youngest Museum Visitors
Category: Alliance BlogIs your museum seeking ways to activate its spaces with the enthusiasm of young learners? As museums strive to be more diverse and inclusive, museums of all types can embrace the larger … -
Klaatu barada Santa: Cyper St. Entropy enters museum space
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogMy co-authors for this year’s Xmas post are John Simmons and Sally Shelton. We firmly maintain that we have not and will never be replaced by cheaply constructed androids. ‘Twas the … -
Museum Accessibility: An Art and a Science
Category: Alliance BlogOver the past decade, conversations about accessibility have increased within the museum field, and many organizations including AAM have identified it as a priority. There is not, however, … -
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 … -
Throwback Thursday: Revisiting the Ransolm
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogCFM’s latest forecasting report, TrendsWatch 2014, has been out a month now, and I have been getting great feedback. The magic chip reports the paper has been opened over 1,700 times. … -
Vanishing Space: Interpreting Agricultural Change in Real Time
This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. Collin County has been a farming community since its … -
The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2019
Category: Alliance BlogIt was a whirlwind year of museums making themselves over for our changing world. Evolving ethics, social and technological transformation, and the looming presence of the bottom line are …
