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Designing a Museum Volunteer Program
Introducing a new edition! This toolkit has helped hundreds of museum professionals create successful and sustainable volunteer programs. Now in its second edition, you too can get the … -
Twenty Innovative Program Ideas for Small Museums
The tips below were shared by Ann Bennett, Allison Schell, Kenny Libben, Susan Goganian, and several audience members during the 60 Ideas in 60 Minutes: Small Museums Are Thriving! session … -
Futurist Friday: Internet Fail
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogFuturist Friday is a series of occasional posts featuring recommending reading, viewing or listening resources to expand your thinking and fuel your forecasting. When I teach forecasting … -
Spring 2025: The Ethics Issue – Preview
In this issue: Share your thoughts about this issue of Exhibition! About Exhibition Published twice a year, the journal offers 128 pages of thought-provoking articles, exhibition … -
Beyond the Four-Legged Chicken
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the July/August 2010 edition of Museum magazine. A History of Museum Registration In 1881, an important moment occurred in the history of registration. … -
Copyright at the Crossroads: A call for museum engagement at the international level
Category: Alliance BlogOn October 18-19, 2019, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will be holding an open two-day meeting in Geneva about copyright exceptions for libraries, archives, and … -
The Path to Director: A Q&A with Jay Xu of Asian Art Museum
Category: Alliance BlogI 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 … -
Museum Design 2034: Perpetual Beta
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogI 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 … -
Out of the Blue: A Punderful Session About Out-of-the-Box Thinking
Category: Alliance BlogI love a good pun, so when I saw a session at the 2018 Annual Meeting and Museum Expo about whales and puns, I was hooked! The session began with an emotional video about nine blue whales …
