Glimpses of the Ethical Future
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Today’s guest post is by Sally Yerkovich, director of the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University and instigator of the Forecast on the Future of Museum Ethics. You can catch up …
The Next Frontier of Museum Ethics
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Here at CFM, we’re wrapping up Round Three of Forecasting the Future of Museum Ethics. The survey closes Dec. 9 (there’s a link below if you still haven’t participated) and I can hardly …
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 …
Spring 2025: The Ethics Issue
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Spring 2025: The Ethics Issue – Preview
In this issue: Share your thoughts about this issue of Exhibition! About Exhibition Published twice a year, the journal offers 128 pages of thought-provoking articles, exhibition …
What are Ethics? A Brief Essay in Plain English
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This essay introduces Round Two of the Forecasting the Future of Museum Ethicsexercise. Follow this link, to vote on which of which of the issues identified in Round One will be most …
The Third Rail of Museum Ethics: Selling Collections to Pay for…What?
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Is it ethical for a museum to use the money it gets from selling collections to fund general operations? How about using the proceeds from the sale for “preservation” (the term used by …
Law & Ethics Can We Believe In Change?
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2009 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Q: I am executive director of a small history museum. Our board of directors …
Political Exhibitionists: Ethical Considerations in the Display of Political Art
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Exhibition Journal
This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2025) Vol. 44 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. Contemporary art exhibitions have long been considered …
Beyond the IT Office: Solving for Ethical AI in Cultural Institutions
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Exhibition Journal
This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2025) Vol. 44 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in museums is nothing new—we’ve seen …
Of Law and Ethics: What do museums need to know in this new era of cultural property ownership disputes?
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. A tension often exists between the law and the ethics of collecting cultural …
Forecasting the Future of Accessibility: Please Touch or Don’t Touch?
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I wish I could preview my Inbox from 2036. How come Outlook doesn’t have an option for that? As a member of AAM’s staff Ethics Taskforce, I help answer plaintive, irate, indignant and …