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Contemplating Colonial Echoes: Visitor Perspectives in a Portuguese Museum
Category: Exhibition JournalThis exhibition critique first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. Museums and ethnographic collections did not reflect … -
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 Pains and Pleasures of Being a First-Generation Museum Person
Category: Alliance BlogEvery 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 … -
Improving Access to Employment for People with Disabilities
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThe 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 … -
Meet Marabou! The furry, friendly creature reimagining the museum
Category: Alliance BlogWhen 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 … -
Thinking About Inclusive Museums in the UK
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogHi, 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 … -
Asset-Based Community Development: Shifting Museums’ Center of Gravity
Category: Alliance BlogTwenty-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” … -
Bookstore
Book Titles From titles covering DEAI and governance to exhibitions and digital, the Alliance partners with the internationally known Bloomsbury Publishing to provide the best and most … -
Chatting About Museums with ChatGPT
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogTwo 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 … -
Digesting the Future of Museum Ethics
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogI’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 …
