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In Praise of Mission Creep

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
My focus this year is on exploring the ways museums serve as essential infrastructure for their communities: improving education for our children, creating livable communities for our …

2014 TrendsWatch Contenders

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
With TrendsWatch 2013 hot off the digital presses, Phil and I are already scanning for early signals of the trends we will feature next year. When it comes to scanning, more eyes = better …

Toxic Philanthropy

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
We live in a time in which the public is hyper sensitive to the ethics of where money comes from, and where it goes. As I observed in TrendsWatch 2015, nonprofits don’t get a free pass in …

Unfinished Business

Category: Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2013 edition of the Museum magazine.  An adult diaper, a pill box, a plain spiral notebook, a yellow sponge, a mess of bank documents, a …

The Most Important Question to Ask in a Capital Campaign

Category: Alliance Blog
Nina Simon is the Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and author of The Participatory Museum (2010), The Art of Relevance (2016) and the popular Museum 2.0 …

Glimpses of the Ethical Future

Category: 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 …

Life’s Persistent Problems: TED Talk June 2040

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Sylvea here. I’d like to introduce Dr. Tom P. Abeles, editor of On the Horizon, a foresight journal on education.  His #FutureFictionFriday story is a 2040 TEDTalk about …

When an Artist Becomes Director

Category: Community Engagement & Impact
I want to change people’s lives through art. Simple as that. I thought I would accomplish this goal as an artist, but as my career progressed, doors opened in a different direction. I …

The Future of Museum Conferences, continued: Why Not Run a Conference Like Maker Faire?

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
I just got back from an intense, exhausting, exhilarating week in northern California that encompassed two very different conference-like events–the Creativity and Collaboration …

Announcing Education Future Fiction Challenge Winners

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Hi, Sylvea here… In late January the we invited museum professionals, educators, futurists, education policy advocates, and community allies to contribute their vision of an …

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