A Growing Backlash to DEI
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Do you remember seeing this picture attempting to illustrate the difference between equality and equity? Now it also illustrates the latest battleground in the new culture wars. While a …
Unschooling—a Fringe Future of Education
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Earlier this month I blogged about the future of education—a theme CFM will be exploring for some time. As part of this exploration, I will share scanning hits—news, hints, pictures and …
Bringing Self-Examination to the Center of Social Justice Work in Museums
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2016 issue of the Museum magazine. We wrote a letter in response to the July/August 2015 issue of this magazine, which focused …
The Louisiana State Museum’s Community-Building Creative Aging Program
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Alliance Blog
In 2018, twenty organizations enrolled in a special museum cohort of Aroha Philanthropies’ Seeding Vitality Arts program. With funding from Aroha, and training provided by Lifetime Arts, …
On the Ground: How Visitor Experience Teams Are Teaching Front-Line Staff to Be DEAI Advocates
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Alliance Blog
In 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 …
AI Adolescence
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Museum Magazine
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. —Stephen Hawking This article …
Effective Exhibitions Should Provoke!
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Exhibition Journal
Effective exhibitions disrupt the notion that history remains locked in the past. Done right, an exhibition can make history a practical tool for justice by recovering silenced narratives …
Food Forward: Eat and drink trends in museums
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2015 edition of the Museum magazine. Museums today are leveraging eating, drinking and tasting in new ways for visitors. Institutions …
Trans Inclusion: Shedding light on gender transition and inclusion in the workplace.
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Transgender people are a lot more common than you might imagine: recent …
Doing Our Part
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Museum Magazine
Museums can simultaneously make their exhibitions more sustainable and improve soc…