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The Museum of the Future—your vision reflected here?
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogA friend who works with, but not in, museums has asked me for predictions regarding characteristics of the museum of the future. He is working on an interesting project to create a … -
10 Best Practices of Accessible Museum Websites
Category: Alliance BlogThis article explores ten high-impact areas you should consider to enhance your website’s accessibility and bring it into conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), … -
What are Ethics? A Brief Essay in Plain English
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThis essay introduces Round Two of the Forecasting the Future of Museum Ethicsexercise. Follow this link, to vote on which of which of the issues identified in Round One will be most … -
Asset-Based Community Development: Shifting Museums’ Center of Gravity
Category: Alliance BlogTwenty-two years ago, I was leading the strategic planning process for a museum education department when I noticed something interesting. Even though we called ourselves the “education” … -
Putting Social Science to Work in Climate Change Interpretation
Category: On-Demand ProgramsPublic engagement efforts on climate change must start with the fundamental recognition that people have different psychological, cultural, and political reasons for acting—or not acting—to … -
Building Access Culture: Intentional Strategies for Museums
Category: Exhibition JournalThis article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2025) Vol. 44 No. 2 and is reproduced with permission. In Fall 2023, Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG) … -
The 2024 Museum Store Gift Guide
Category: Alliance BlogAs cheerful as the holiday season can be, it can also be a dizzying blur of to-dos, chief among them the task of finding thoughtful, interesting gifts that will delight their recipients. … -
Seeds Of Change: Museums tap food trends, reap rewards.
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the September/October 2011 edition of Museum magazine. Considering all the signs that read “No food or drinks allowed,” most museum visitors … -
What YouTube Can Do for Museums
Category: Museum MagazineThis article originally appeared in the September/October 2016 issue of Museum magazine. How museums can use YouTube to engage visitors and extend their reach. “YouTube is the new TV”—or so … -
Right to Rest
Category: Exhibition JournalThis article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2025) Vol. 44 No. 2 and is reproduced with permission. Alma Thomas (1891–1978) was an American artist, educator, …
