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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 … -
Walk Before You Run: Experimenting With and Learning About Artificial Intelligence
Category: On-Demand ProgramsThis recording is from the Future of Museums Summit held October 29–30, 2024. In this session, Adam Levine, Edward Drummond and Florence Scott Libbey President, Director and CEO, Toledo … -
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 … -
Balancing Act: Honoring Feedback While Staying True to Your Mission
Category: On-Demand ProgramsThis is a recorded session from the 2025 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. As museums take on challenging topics, audience reactions may be strong and varied. In this session, consider … -
Privacy in a Watchful World: What have you got to hide?
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogIn a world where companies and governments can, and increasingly do, track vast amounts of personal information about our habits, preferences, behavior, communications and even our … -
Museopunks Episode 38: Decolonization and its Discontents
As decolonization moves more firmly onto the agenda in museums, so too does its critique. In this episode, we speak with Sumaya Kassim, author of the essay ‘The Museum Will Not Be … -
Creative Agers Throughout History
Category: Alliance BlogI’ve recommended Gene D. Cohen’s book The Creative Age any number of times in these Ad Summa blogs, and one of the elements that makes the book so memorable is the continuing list in the … -
Beyond the IT Office: Solving for Ethical AI in Cultural Institutions
Category: Exhibition JournalThis article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2025) Vol. 44 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in museums is nothing new—we’ve seen … -
CARE-apy: Belonging in Cultural Institutions
Category: On-Demand ProgramsApproaches, Findings & Future Directions for the Field What does belonging look like in cultural institutions? We’ll share how two projects worked to understand belonging – across a …
