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Microclimates: A Greener Future for Collection Care
Category: Alliance BlogThere are many options available for museums to address climate action and become more sustainable, but recent work at two institutions has highlighted the value in one particular method: … -
Preparing for closures or re-closures
Support Free COVID-19 Resources for the Field: These resources have been taken out from behind the member paywall to make them free and accessible for all. The current crisis is taking a … -
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 … -
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 … -
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), … -
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) launched its Access … -
From Neutrality to Narrative: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Exhibiting Science
Category: Exhibition JournalThis article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. In a rapidly changing world marked by ecological crises, … -
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. …
