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Wild Times: In which social service nonprofits save the day.
Category: Future ForecastingIntroduction to This Scenario A wild card scenario explores the kind of low-probability, high-impact event that can disrupt the best-laid plans. Though you shouldn’t obsess about these … -
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 … -
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 … -
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 … -
FASB’s Proposed Changes to the Design of Nonprofit Financial Statements and What it May Mean to Your Museum
After nearly 20 years of living with the current not-for-profit reporting model, users of financial statements of nonprofit organizations in many cases still do not have a true … -
Invite Congress to Visit Your Museum
Jump to: About Invite Congress Invite Congress to Visit Your Museum in August 2025. Members of Congress are in their home districts the entire month of August, visiting local businesses and … -
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 … -
Museums and Digital Strategy Today
Category: TechnologyOver the past decade, museums around the world have been adapting to the fast-pace of technical change and have debated a variety of approaches to digital strategy and whether to integrate … -
Museums and the Elephant in the Room: The Slave Dwelling Project
This recording is from the Future of Museums Summit held November 1-2, 2023. Museums and historic sites have the potential to address historical injustices through reparative practices, … -
Museopunks Episode 26: Decolonize the Museum!
Category: DecolonizationThe vision of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine, describes how the museum “will reflect and realize the values of decolonization in all of its practices, working with the Wabanaki …
