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2024 Future of Museums Summit (Virtual)
Back to Future of Museums Summit site Our sector and our world are changing faster than ever, and it’s never been more important to think about the future than in this volatile but hopeful … -
The Museum Sector and the Paris Agreement
Category: Alliance BlogSarah Sutton is principal of Sustainable Museums, a museum consultancy. She is also a member of the PIC-Green Professional Network. The very day President Donald Trump announced that the … -
Natural History Museums as Superman’s Crystal Palace
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogToday, guest blogger Henry McGhie (seen below), Head of Collections and Curator of Zoology at the Manchester Museum, shares his thoughts on how museums can empower visitors to become … -
Fall 2017: Exhibition The Issues Of Our Time
Features Inspiring Planet-Savvy Citizens: Evaluation as a Tool for Organizational and Social Change. By Kara Blond, Katie Chandler, Shari Werb The Wound Is Fresh: Exhibiting Orlando’s LGBTQ … -
How Can Museums Empower Communities? TACA Perforum
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogLast month I had the honor of speaking on a panel organized by The Arts Community Alliance (TACA) in Dallas, hosted by the Nasher Sculpture Center. Every year TACA brings together speakers … -
Toxic Philanthropy
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogWe live in a time in which the public is hyper sensitive to the ethics of where money comes from, and where it goes. As I observed in TrendsWatch 2015, nonprofits don’t get a free pass in … -
Museum Exhibition Materials Pledge: Sustainability Goals into Action webinar
Category: Environmental SustainabilityWatch this recorded webinar with Douglas Flandro from CambridgeSeven Associates, Inc., Brenda Leigh Baker from the Madison Children’s Museum, Stephanie Ratcliffe of The Wild Center, … -
Announcing Education Future Fiction Challenge Winners
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogHi, Sylvea here… In late January the we invited museum professionals, educators, futurists, education policy advocates, and community allies to contribute their vision of an … -
Catching up with Jeannette Ickovics: 2011 Feeding the Spirit Keynote Speaker
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogCan a museum win the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Childhood Obesity Challenge? With your help, maybe yes. Read on. Last winter, Jeannette Ickovics from the Yale School of Public Health … -
Creating the New
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogHow many of you know of dysfunctional relationships between universities and museums? Hark–I hear a forest of hands rise across the land. Too often colleges and universities fail to …
