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Using Local Data to More Fully Understand the Visitor Experience During COVID
Category: Alliance BlogAt Thanksgiving Point Institute—a farm, garden, and museum complex in Lehi, Utah—we’ve been wondering how visitor agendas are changing during the current health crisis. Understanding … -
Science Gone Viral: An interactive comic engrosses readers in educational material
Category: Alliance BlogWhat’s more fun than reading comics? And what if a comic could not only model science inquiry processes, but also offer readers the opportunity to jump in and solve a mystery along with the … -
Living in a Wild Future
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogIn March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world for Americans and American museums, my job shifted from focusing on the far future to the immediate present. As museum leaders … -
“Connecting With The Story”: A conversation with author JULIA ALVAREZ
Category: Global ThinkingThis article originally appeared in the May/June 2010 edition of the Museum magazine. Julia Alvarez may have only lived in the Dominican Republic from the age of 3 months through 10 years, … -
Reviewing staff and administrative policies
Support Free COVID-19 Resources for the Field: These resources have been taken out from behind the member paywall to make them free and accessible for all. The current crisis is taking a … -
The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2025
Category: Alliance BlogSome years, it takes a bit of reflection to find the throughline in museum discourse. 2025 has not been one of them. The main story has been clear: as a new presidential administration came … -
Beyond Binary
Category: Museum MagazineDeveloping an exhibition on the many faces of identity unmasks the slippery nature of truths and beliefs about gender. This article originally appeared in the March/April 2020 issue of … -
Revisiting Wild Times: The Loss of Nonprofit Status
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogIn 2018 I published a scenario titled “Wild Times” set in a version of 2040 in which museums lost their nonprofit status due to a combination of political attacks, economic stress, and a … -
I Have A Confession: I’m An Adult
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the July/August 2013 edition of Museum magazine. How can science museums welcome grown-ups? I don’t have children, but I like to go to science … -
“Growing Your Elders”: “Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi”: An Exhibition Curated by the Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogMuseum standards emerge over time as the museum sector challenges norms, reexamines values, and tests new ways of being and doing. The Clyfford Still Museum’s deep partnership with …
