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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 … -
Essential Evaluators: What’s in Your Soup?
Category: Alliance BlogEssential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. … -
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 … -
Museums, Health, and Wellness Compendium
For years, museums have demonstrated their public value as educational providers, community anchors, and stewards of our national heritage. They’ve also earned a reputation for driving … -
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 … -
60 Ideas in 60 Minutes Small Museums are Thriving Annual Meeting Rewatch
Category: On-Demand ProgramsCurious about the AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo but not sure what to expect? Join us for a special preview event featuring two of our most talked-about sessions from recent …
