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 …

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 …

July/August 2025 Preview

In this issue: July/August 2025 issue By the Numbers: AI in the Museum 96% is the accuracy rate of AI used at the US National Herbarium for plant specimen sorting.  10% of US adults …

Curating Trauma and Violence: Preparing and Caring for Communities and Staff

Category: On-Demand Programs
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In this recorded session, museum professionals from various institutions – a museum focused on the Holocaust, a …

Taking A Fresh Look At Provenance

Category: Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2016 issue of Museum magazine. Pursuing a future in which provenance research and data are efficient, accessible, and equitable. Museums …

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 …

Artificial Intelligence: The Rise Of The Intelligent Machine

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.” – …

2018 MUSE Award Winners

Audio Experiences Gold Through the Eyes of Love The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Through the Eyes of Love represents a new kind of hybrid – mixing the intimacy of podcasts with the …

TrendsWatch 2019: Confronting the Past: The long, hard work of decolonization

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This is one of the five trends from the 2019 TrendsWatch. Click here to read more about the full report.  “Colonialism and imperialism have not settled their debt to us once they have …

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