The Museum Inside Out: The Chicago History Museum’s three decades of transformation offers a window into the changing role of curators and community engagement.
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Founded in 1856, the Chicago Historical Society was imagined at a time …
SWF ISO Museum Position
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This week’s guest post is an interview with future museum professional Paige LaCour, student in museum management at Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies and volunteer at …
Digesting the Future of Museum Ethics
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I’m suffering from a bad case of “be careful what you wish for.” The Forecasting the Future of Museum Ethics project that CFM has been running with the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton …
Forecasting the Future of Accessibility in Museums
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I am getting ready for a presentation at the Leadership and Excellence in Accessible Design (LEAD) conference to be held at the Kennedy Center later this month. The presentation will ask …
Museum Design 2034: Perpetual Beta
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I blogged last week about how futurists write stories of the future based on trends we can observe now. This helps people explore what their lives, and their organizations, might look like …
Twelve Museum Innovations in 2023
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Dispatches from the Center for the Future of Museums is a museum newsletter like none other, offering far-reaching analysis of emerging social, technological, economic, environmental, and …
Curators Take Flight: Four curators cast a wide eye on the shifting landscape for curatorial practice
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. It’s an exciting time to be a curator. The role is evolving and the …
Magical Machinery? What AI can do for museums
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Alliance Blog
When people hear I work with artificial intelligence, they often imagine that I create software that does magical things. Their minds go to humanistic androids or programs that predict …
Museums and AI: Could Robots Be Your New Coworkers?
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Alliance Blog
What is AI? How does it impact our lives every day? How are museums already using it? How might they use it in the future? This post, one of three on the topic of artificial intelligence in …
Sofa So Good: A word on behalf of older folks
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Alliance Blog
I don’t know about you, but a career in museums has made it very difficult for me to be a satisfied museum visitor. I find that I am always peering into “how the sausage is made,” as it …
The Post-educational Museum
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
The recent kerfluffle about whether museums should be included in the federal stimulus bill was a depressing reminder of the narrow stereotypes into which museums force themselves in order …
The Path to Director: A Q&A with Jay Xu of Asian Art Museum
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Alliance Blog
I lived in San Francisco for almost six years while working at the Oakland Museum of California, and during that time, I came to know and love the city’s Asian Art Museum. When I …