Labor 3.0: Museums and Co-working Spaces
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Finding 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 …
Museum Design 2034: Respite and Retreat
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
This is the third installment of a series of “stories from the future” illustrating how museum practitioners can use trends data as a jumping off point for exploring potential futures. …
“Wait, What? Toddlers in an Art Museum?”
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Alliance Blog
Caitlin Mock Wilson, a mother of two young children and a Clyfford Still Museum (CSM) member, often went to museums with her parents as a young child. When she had her own children, she …
What If Educators Ran a Museum?
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
I’ve been intrigued by the El Segundo Museum of Art since I first read about it in the Los Angeles Times when the museum opened in 2013. That article emphasized ESMoA’s focus on arts …
Asset-Based Community Development: Shifting Museums’ Center of Gravity
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Alliance Blog
Twenty-two years ago, I was leading the strategic planning process for a museum education department when I noticed something interesting. Even though we called ourselves the “education” …
What Museums Can Learn from Amanda Palmer
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
On the way to New Zealand in the spring of 2016, I started reading Amanda Palmer’s The Art of Asking. I thought of it as “me time” reading, and as such it was relegated to snippets of time …
Online Programs: Mission and Institutional Planning
Excellence in Exhibition Label Writing If you are learning how to write exhibition labels or want to reinvigorate your current label writing, this program will guide you in finding …
How the Delaware Art Museum is Centering Community Voices in Interpretive Planning
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Alliance Blog
In 2018, the Delaware Art Museum (DelArt) began a radically inclusive approach to reinstallation planning, integrating community voices at every stage through focus groups, iterative …
Speaking Up: Museum Advocacy in Action
Get your copy today! Why and How to Use this Toolkit You don’t have to be in Washington, DC, to make the case for museums. Your voice matters. When you make advocacy a habit, you create a …
The Museum of the Future—your vision reflected here?
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
A friend who works with, but not in, museums has asked me for predictions regarding characteristics of the museum of the future. He is working on an interesting project to create a …
Bringing Self-Examination to the Center of Social Justice Work in Museums
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2016 issue of the Museum magazine. We wrote a letter in response to the July/August 2015 issue of this magazine, which focused …
Bring on museum companion apps — but only if they’re absolutely awesome
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Technology
On a weekday afternoon in the Greek and Roman sculpture hall at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I was, to my surprise, the only visitor on my phone. The long gallery was fairly empty, but …