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Introducing the TrendsWatch 2018 Scenarios
Why Tell Stories About the Future? Plans based on one anticipated future are brittle: they are prone to failure if the underlying assumptions turn out to be wrong. Many a strategic plan has … -
Centering the Cellphone, Decentering the Museum
Category: Exhibition JournalThis article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. In 2019, an 11th-grader from the District of Columbia talked with … -
CSISOS: Cool Sessions in Search of Speakers
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThe call for proposals for the AAM 2013 annual meeting closes on Friday, Aug. 24. As I’ve explained in an earlier post, this year AAM is encouraging people to post early drafts of their … -
From Neutrality to Narrative: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Exhibiting Science
Category: Exhibition JournalThis article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. In a rapidly changing world marked by ecological crises, … -
Museum Jobs That Didn’t Exist in 2003
Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog(& what that says about the evolution of our field.) A couple weeks ago, I read a post on Coexist called “Eight New Jobs People will have in 2025,” projecting openings for Digital Death … -
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 … -
January/February 2026 Preview
In this issue: January/February 2026 issue By the Numbers: Signals of the Future 69% of US museums were negatively impacted by executive orders and actions in 2025. 63% of US museums … -
Don’t Miss the Full Picture
Category: Museum MagazineA museum’s financial reports must be crafted and communicated in ways that engender trust and strategic decision-making. This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s May/June 2025 … -
Practicing What We Preach
Category: Museum MagazineMuseum studies graduate students co-curate a feminist art exhibition to test assumptions on ideal approaches to inclusion. This article originally appeared in the March/April 2020 issue … -
A Greener Tomorrow: Museums Take Steps Toward Sustainability
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the July/August 2012 edition of the Museum magazine. According to AAM’s Code of Ethics for Museums, the common mission of our institutions is their …
