The Pains and Pleasures of Being a First-Generation Museum Person
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Alliance Blog
Every few months or so, there’s a family gathering. From a birthday celebration to a family cookout, my family never seems to have a shortage of reasons to gather. At the time of this …
10 Tips for Creating an Engaging Museum Website
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Marketing & Public Relations
The American Alliance of Museums offers the following information from Francesca Parker, Director of Project Management at Purple Rock Scissors. The information shared here is based on the …
Virtual Programs for Children—What Do Parents Want Now?
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Alliance Blog
After of year of chaos, anguish, and reflection, the world is entering a new phase—perhaps “post-pandemic,” maybe the “new normal”—it will take a while to settle on the right label. Last …
Meet Marabou! The furry, friendly creature reimagining the museum
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Alliance Blog
When you visit a museum, do you feel empowered? Do you feel like you have authority and control of your experience? That’s why Marabou is here: to remind us that we all have agency in our …
Unfinished Business
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. An adult diaper, a pill box, a plain spiral notebook, a yellow sponge, a mess of bank documents, a …
Designing a Museum Volunteer Program
Introducing a new edition! This toolkit has helped hundreds of museum professionals create successful and sustainable volunteer programs. Now in its second edition, you too can get the …
SWF ISO Museum Position
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This 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 …
Improving Access to Employment for People with Disabilities
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
The museum sector is working to increase the diversity of our workforce through a variety of ways: for example, how we craft position requirements, word job announcements, and conduct …
Asset-Based Community Development: Shifting Museums’ Center of Gravity
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Alliance Blog
Twenty-two years ago, I was leading the strategic planning process for a museum education department when I noticed something interesting. Even though we called ourselves the “education” …
Thinking About Inclusive Museums in the UK
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Hi, Nicole here! As part of my work as a Mellon/ACLS fellow with CFM, I’m focusing on a constellation of issues related to museums and labor, including pathways to museum employment; wage …
Digesting the Future of Museum Ethics
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I’m suffering from a bad case of “be careful what you wish for.” The Forecasting the Future of Museum Ethics project that CFM has been running with the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton …
Chatting About Museums with ChatGPT
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Two months ago, the research and development lab OpenAI released ChatGPT, an interactive “chatbot” powered by artificial intelligence. Chatbots aren’t new (I’ve been writing about …