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Integrating Collaboration and Technology to Create a Crowdsourced Experience
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogI attended the Media & Technology Committee’s MUSE awards ceremony at the AAM annual meeting in Minneapolis Saint Paul a few weeks ago. The award-winning projects illustrate a number of … -
Forecasting the Future of History Organizations and Their Leaders
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogFor three weeks every November leaders and practitioners from the field of the public history meet at the Seminar for Historical Administration to discuss challenges and future directions … -
Pandemic Disruption as an Opportunity for Change: Intuit
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogA year ago, I wrote about how Venice is using their pandemic induced pause to rethink how they can create a better future of sustainable tourism rather than rebounding to the status quo of … -
Right to Rest
Category: Exhibition JournalThis article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2025) Vol. 44 No. 2 and is reproduced with permission. Alma Thomas (1891–1978) was an American artist, educator, and community … -
FASB’s Proposed Changes to the Design of Nonprofit Financial Statements and What it May Mean to Your Museum
After nearly 20 years of living with the current not-for-profit reporting model, users of financial statements of nonprofit organizations in many cases still do not have a true … -
Questioning Assumptions: The Ideal Employee:Volunteer Ratio
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogToday’s thought experiment: what if, in the future, museums asked not “how many volunteers do we need” but rather “how can we structure our operations to engage as many volunteers as … -
Fostering Innovation: Part 1
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogOne of CFM’s assignments is to encourage museums to innovate, the logic being that if the future is going to be significantly different from the present, museums are going to have to adopt … -
You Get What You Measure
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogTwo watch words often thrown about regarding the future of museums are “transparency” and “accountability.” The former is getting easier and easier to achieve—what excuse is there, really, … -
March/April 2025 Preview
In this issue: March/April 2025 issue By the Numbers: Museum Accessibility 56% of frequent museum-going households could use additional physical, cognitive, or emotional support for a … -
The Promise of Virtual Education Programs: Cross-Cultural Exchange, School-Museum Collaborations, and STEAM Learning (and Lemurs!)
Category: Alliance BlogTo continue providing meaningful experiences for pre-K through twelfth-grade audiences in the era of COVID-19, museums must re-envision educational practice for the virtual realm. By …
