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Futurist Friday: Exploring the Future of Education

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
I’ve been blogging a lot about the future of education, and the coming of a new educational era. If we are on the cusp of transformational change, it’s very important for museum futurists …

10 Best Practices of Accessible Museum Websites

Category: Alliance Blog
This 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), …

September Suggestions: Spice up your Scanning

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Time to reinforce my relentless message: even when it seems like a guilty pleasure or a waste of time, you should carve out space each day to study a least one short piece of news, read a …

Futurist Friday: Internet Fail

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Futurist Friday is a series of occasional posts featuring recommending reading, viewing or listening resources to expand your thinking and fuel your  forecasting. When I teach …

Futurist Friday: Seeing the Bigger Picture

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
You can follow FiveBooks (& their cutemanatee mascot) on Twitter@five_books Today, for your weekly fix of futurism, I recommend you bop over to the Five Books site to read …

Futurist Friday: Author Author

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Turing Test: Museum edition. Could a computer program write an exhibit label or an exhibit catalog that made visitors believe a human museum worker penned the text?There’s a lot of …

Staying in Touch: Addressing Concerns to Allow Tactile Exploration at Museums

Category: Alliance Blog
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating new norms that discourage touching all manner of objects to curtail the spread of the virus. However, when public spaces reopen, understandable concern …

The Watchful Museum

Category: 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

Category: 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 …

Museopunks Episode 40: A very human exhibition

Category: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion
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 …

Searching for Truffles: History Nebraska is using curiosity to grow staff capacity and enrich the museum experience

Category: 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 …

A Transformative Journey

Category: Museum Magazine
Participating in Facing Change has helped the Naper Settlement board and staff transform the i…

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