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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Advice on the Strategic use of Twitter from a Master Tweeter—Neil Tyson

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of AMNH’s Rose Center for Air and Space, is an astrophysics rock star. How many museumers get interviewed four times by Jon Stewart? In the first interview, …

The Louisiana State Museum’s Community-Building Creative Aging Program

Category: Alliance Blog
In 2018, twenty organizations enrolled in a special museum cohort of Aroha Philanthropies’ Seeding Vitality Arts program. With funding from Aroha, and training provided by Lifetime Arts, …

Navigating a Disrupted Future at #AAM2021

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
How is a talk different from a written report? How is a digital presentation different from its analog kin? Earlier this week I gave my annual TrendsWatch session at the #AAM2021 virtual …

Sleuths in the City

Category: Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 edition of the Museum magazine.  A History Museum Just For Kids  “This is awesome! You’ve gotta see this,” a …

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