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What If Educators Ran a Museum?
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogI’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 … -
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 … -
Bringing Self-Examination to the Center of Social Justice Work in Museums
Category: Museum MagazineThis 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 … -
Asset-Based Community Development: Shifting Museums’ Center of Gravity
Category: Alliance BlogTwenty-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
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogOn 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 … -
From the Ground Up: A Toolkit for Starting a Museum
Get your copy today! Why and how to use this toolkit People wish to start museums for many different reasons, such as the desire to share their passion with others, to preserve treasured … -
How the Delaware Art Museum is Centering Community Voices in Interpretive Planning
Category: Alliance BlogIn 2018, the Delaware Art Museum (DelArt) began a radically inclusive approach to reinstallation planning, integrating community voices at every stage through focus groups, iterative … -
AAM Recognizes 8 Individuals and 4 Institutions for Exemplary Work in the Museum Field
Category: Press ReleaseFor Immediate Release ARLINGTON, VA – The Board of Directors of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, … -
The Museum of the Future—your vision reflected here?
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogA 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 … -
A Colossal Mirror: Museums as a Refuge for the Real in the Age of AI
Category: Exhibition JournalThis article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. The museum is a colossal mirror in which man contemplates himself, in …
