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Market and Meaning: Indigenous art at the crossroads of commerce and repatriation
Category: Museum MagazineMaeve R. Donnelly is a collections assistant at the Syracuse University Art Museum in New York. The research presented in this article was conducted independently as part of her graduate … -
The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2023
Category: Alliance Blog2023 was a year of deep reflection for museums, both inward and outward. Facing continued disruptions from the long tail of the pandemic—especially to staffing, attendance, and finances—the … -
May/June 2024 Preview
In this issue: May/June 2024 issue By the Numbers: Thriving Museums, Healthy Communities The Annual Survey of Museum-Goers asked visitors how museums affect their health and wellbeing. Here … -
Trusting the Process: The Collaborative Journey to Reframing a Problematic Object
Category: Alliance Blog“Put it in storage.” “Replace it with something else.” “Put up a new label.” “Do nothing.” These were some of the solutions offered up when the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of … -
An Afrofuturist School Program Empowers Children to Envision the Future
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogFuturism is a powerful tool to share with kids—equipping them to think about the world they want to live in when they grow up, challenging them to make it better. Today on the blog, … -
Printing the Future
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogWhen I read that MakerBot was opening its first retail outlet, located in NYC, I sent a tweet-out looking for a volunteer to be CFM’s futurist-on-the-street. That is how I connected with … -
Point of View: Repairing Leader-Staff Trust
Category: Museum MagazineClaims about integrity, benevolence, and sincerity are at the heart of many internal organizational conflicts. This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s May/June 2025 issue, a … -
Will You Know Innovation When You See It?
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogLast week my virtual self gave a brief intro via Skype to Phelan Fretz’s session on Innovation at the NEMA meeting in Burlington, Vermont. Phelan (who is the executive director of the ECHO … -
Towards Frictionless Augmented Reality
Category: Alliance BlogAuthor’s Note: Several months ago, putting on an Augmented Reality (AR) headset was an uncomfortable nuisance for museum visitors. Now, it’s a potential health risk. The COVID-19 pandemic … -
To B Corps or not to B Corps—A Case Study
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogSome people think that because museums are nonprofits, they are not allowed to make money. Cue my mantra: nonprofit is a tax status, not a business strategy. A financially successful …
