Leave Room to Grow: The Impact of Evolving Historic Events on a Temporary Exhibition
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Exhibition Journal
This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2024) Vol. 43 No. 2 and is reproduced with permission. If you don’t read the journal, become a member to receive your copy of the …
Museopunks Episode 40: A very human exhibition
Being Human, the new permanent gallery at Wellcome Collection explores what it means to be human in the 21st century. In creating the exhibition, the Wellcome Collection worked with two …
Museums and AI: Could Robots Be Your New Coworkers?
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Alliance Blog
What is AI? How does it impact our lives every day? How are museums already using it? How might they use it in the future? This post, one of three on the topic of artificial intelligence in …
The Watchful Museum
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I had the pleasure of contributing to a symposium at the National Museum of American History’s Lemelson Center last Friday. Inventing the Surveillance Society looked at the evolving balance …
Thinking About Inclusive Museums in the UK
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Hi, Nicole here! As part of my work as a Mellon/ACLS fellow with CFM, I’m focusing on a constellation of issues related to museums and labor, including pathways to museum employment; wage …
Thursday Thought: Curatorial Poetry
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I just added Curatorial Poetry (@curatorialpoems) to my Twitter feed. Highly recommend. Here is an essay by Micah Walter (@micahwalter) on Medium that explains why and how he created this …
Towards Frictionless Augmented Reality
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Alliance Blog
Author’s Note: Several months ago, putting on an Augmented Reality (AR) headset was an uncomfortable nuisance for museum visitors. Now, it’s a potential health risk. The COVID-19 pandemic …
A Transformative Journey
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Museum Magazine
Participating in Facing Change has helped the Naper Settlement board and staff transform the i…
Social Media Can Transform Your Museum: An interview with Lanae Spruce
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Alliance Blog
I’ll never forget the moment I began to understand the true power of social media. It was 2015 and I was working for a popular online feminist magazine. My job involved reading every one of …
Searching for Truffles: History Nebraska is using curiosity to grow staff capacity and enrich the museum experience
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. History Nebraska’s museum recently reopened following extensive …