Talking About Museums and Internships
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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
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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
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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 …
Protected: Imprint Series: The Social Work of Museums
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Exhibition Critique: A Celebration and a Reclamation
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Exhibition Journal
This exhibition critique first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2025) Vol. 44 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. Exhibition information: Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s …
Beyond the Four-Legged Chicken
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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
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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 …
A Greener Tomorrow: Museums Take Steps Toward Sustainability
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2012 edition of the Museum magazine. According to AAM’s Code of Ethics for Museums, the common mission of our institutions is their …
Printing the Future
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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 …
Essential Evaluators: What’s in Your Soup?
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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. …