Futurist Friday: Seeing the Bigger Picture
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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 …
Throwback Thursday: Respite, Retreat…and Privacy
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
In TrendsWatch 2013, we covered the rising dissatisfaction with our always-connected, hyper-digital world, giving birth to a movement dubbed “digital detox.” Now, as documented …
Glimpses of the Ethical Future
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Today’s guest post is by Sally Yerkovich, director of the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University and instigator of the Forecast on the Future of Museum Ethics. You can catch up …
Staying in Touch: Addressing Concerns to Allow Tactile Exploration at Museums
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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 …
September Suggestions: Spice up your Scanning
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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 …
Lorem Ipsum: 5 Keys to Speaking the Same Language as Your Project Team
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Alliance Blog
My financial planner talks at lightning speed, using terms like “asset class diversification,” “large-cap funds,” and “variable annuity.” Embarrassingly, I don’t know what any of it means, …
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Psyched about Storytelling
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
AAM just announced the theme for our 2013 annual meeting in Baltimore, and it is (drumroll, please): Storytelling This is such a great theme, for many reasons. While people who work in, and …
From Theory to Practice: Applying Futures Studies
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
A guest post contributed by Joe Cavanaugh, museum director of the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas. Joe was one of Elizabeth Merritt’s classmates in the …
Reinventing the Historic House Museum: MJT meets the Civil War
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Here is another brief brain jotting as I take a break from writing TrendsWatch 2015. I’ve been vastly enjoying blog postsand tweets from Frank Vagnone, author of the Anarchist Guide to …