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 …
Museums in Good Health
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Museum Magazine
The article originally appeared in the January/February 2014 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of membership with the Alliance. An adapted excerpt from Museums On Call: How Museums Are …
Sleuths in the City
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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 …
Navigating a Disrupted Future at #AAM2021
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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 …
Advice on the Strategic use of Twitter from a Master Tweeter—Neil Tyson
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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
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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, …
Making History Accessible: Toolkit for Multisensory Interpretation
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On-Demand Programs
In 2019, the Intrepid Museum and New York University Ability Project brought together staff of historic sites, disability advocates, and experts in historic preservation and museum …
Valuing and Creating Value: AAM’s Recent Internship Project
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Alliance Blog
Do you enjoy reading Museum, the Alliance’s award-winning magazine? Well, if you do, we’re excited to tell you that we’ve been busy digitizing past feature articles and adding …
The Fixer Upper Effect: Waco museums enjoy the ride (and try to learn the deeper meaning)
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Alliance Blog
It’s Monday, November 5, at 1:01 pm. I’m headed to a meeting in downtown Waco, Texas. As I drive by The Silos, a retail space developed by Fixer Upper stars Chip and Joanna Gaines, I am …
A Free Survey to Measure a Sense of Belonging at Museums
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Alliance Blog
Not everyone wants to visit a museum. This is in part because of operational issues like cost, location, schedule, but these aren’t the whole story. Some don’t even reach the point of …
Different Lenses for Addressing Our Planet Crisis
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On-Demand Programs
It will take more than the media and science-based institutions to educate the population about the climate crisis and how individuals can take personal or collective action. This session …
Museums Can Change the World: Improving the Nation’s Health
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
A projection for the U.S., by 2030: Obesity prevalence will rise to ~50% in men between 45% and 52% in women. There will be: 7.8 million extra cases of diabetes; 6.8 million more cases of …