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9 Colossal Exhibit Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Category: ExhibitionsA Comprehensive Tipsheet to Thoughtful Curation, Engaging Exhibits, and How to Limit Headaches When Bringing Museum Experiences to Life. This tipsheet was developed by Elizabeth Skrabonja … -
What are Ethics? A Brief Essay in Plain English
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThis essay introduces Round Two of the Forecasting the Future of Museum Ethicsexercise. Follow this link, to vote on which of which of the issues identified in Round One will be most … -
On the Ground: How Visitor Experience Teams Are Teaching Front-Line Staff to Be DEAI Advocates
Category: Alliance BlogIn the museum experience world, making visitors feel welcome is serious business. Our goal is to exceed guests’ standards for positive experiences, and nothing undermines that goal like a … -
SWF ISO Museum Position
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThis 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 … -
The Post-educational Museum
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThe 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 … -
Stitching Together Open Collections Data
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogIn TrendsWatch 2015 I cited last year’s CitStitch Hackathon as an example of natural history museums collaborating with the public to create open datasets about collections. So I was super … -
Gone Digital: Creating Space-Saving Museum Exhibitions
Category: Alliance BlogMost museums, large and small, have space issues, but the problem can be much more acute for local history museums. Developing creative, space-conscious methods for mounting exhibitions and … -
Becoming a Data Startup – Part 2
Category: Alliance BlogIt’s time again for our next installment of Becoming a Data Startup! For those of you who read along in our last post, you learned some simple tips and tricks for formatting your data that … -
2001 MUSE Award Winners
Interpretation/Education: Science: Gold (overall): Fact, Theory and Speculation, The Field Museum. (video) Silver (audio): Nature Guide–Audio Interpretive Tour, The Cleveland Museum …
