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September Suggestions: Spice up your Scanning
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogTime to reinforce my relentless message: even when it seems like a guilty pleasure or a waste of time, you should carve out space each day to study a least one short piece of news, read a … -
CARE-apy: Psychological Science and the Visitor Experience
Category: On-Demand ProgramsWhen visitors leave a museum, in what ways are they different than when they walked in? What intellectual connections did visitors make with the ideas and artifacts with which they … -
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 … -
Don’t Miss the Full Picture
Category: Museum MagazineA museum’s financial reports must be crafted and communicated in ways that engender trust and strategic decision-making. This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s May/June 2025 … -
Speaking with the Next Generation of Museum Workers
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogDid you create a museum in your room when you were a kid? Did you—like the Field Museum’s Bill Stanley—have a #butterflymoment when you realized working in a museum could be a real job? The … -
Holidays with Class(es): St. Entropy Gets Schooled
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThis is #25 in a series that, I’m happy to say, looks like it won’t end anytime soon. Enjoy a holiday break, and I look forward blogging with and for you in the new year.‘Twas … -
Doing Our Part
Category: Museum MagazineMuseums can simultaneously make their exhibitions more sustainable and improve soc… -
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 … -
Museopunks Episode 36: Queering Your Museum
The end of Pride Month does not mean that we should stop talking or thinking about LGBTQIA+ inclusion and queer curating practices in museums. This month, we’re joined by Craig Middleton … -
On the Ground: How Visitor Experience Teams Are Teaching Front-Line Staff to Be DEAI Advocates
Category: Alliance BlogIn the museum experience world, making visitors feel welcome is serious business. Our goal is to exceed guests’ standards for positive experiences, and nothing undermines that goal like a …
