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Now What?: Project Ideas for Museum Staff Working Remotely

Category: Alliance Blog
By now, most of us are well into our stints of working from home. But weeks or months in, you might be finding it hard to think of new tasks you can do without access to your physical site. …

Talking About Museums and Internships

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Hi, Nicole here! Throughout the course of my work on museums and labor at CFM this past year, I have had the pleasure of talking with—and learning from—colleagues across the US in various …

Search History: Enhancing museum collection access and reducing bias through public input in digital catalogues

Category: Museum Magazine
Including the public in digital catalogue descriptions will improve access to museum collections and help remove bias. This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s July/August 2024 …

When Robots Learn to be Creative, What Happens to Informal Learning

Category: On-Demand Programs: Future of Museums
The proliferation of AI, particularly Large-Language Models, has rapidly emerged as a transformative force in formal education. This presentation explores the factors driving the increasing …

Beyond the Four-Legged Chicken

Category: Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2010 edition of Museum magazine. A History of Museum Registration In 1881, an important moment occurred in the history of registration. …

Twelve Museum Innovations in 2023

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Dispatches from the Center for the Future of Museums is a museum newsletter like none other, offering far-reaching analysis of emerging social, technological, economic, environmental, and …

Printing the Future

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
When I read that MakerBot was opening its first retail outlet, located in NYC, I sent a tweet-out looking for a volunteer to be CFM’s futurist-on-the-street. That is how I connected with …

Thinking About Inclusive Museums in the UK

Category: 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 …

Essential Evaluators: What’s in Your Soup?

Category: Alliance Blog
Essential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. …

Resisting the Colonial Imagination: The Role of Exhibition Design in the Decolonial Project

Category: Exhibition Journal
It is Monday morning at First Americans Museum (FAM), and a group of fifth graders are bustling with excitement as they embark on a gallery tour. A museum educator welcomes the students in …

Beyond Compliance at the McClung Museum

Category: Museum Magazine
At the McClung Museum, a NAGPRA assessment strengthens collaboration with Native Nations on a current and future …

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