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, …
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 …
Navigating a Disrupted Future at #AAM2021
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
How is a talk different from a written report? How is a digital presentation different from its analog kin? Earlier this week I gave my annual TrendsWatch session at the #AAM2021 virtual …
Reviewing staff policies and administrative concerns
Administrative Policies Museums should take steps now to revisit and update administrative policies and engage in clear and regular communication with staff in the process. Specific …
Artificial Intelligence: The Rise Of The Intelligent Machine
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.”Alan Kay, …
Questioning Assumptions: The Ideal Employee:Volunteer Ratio
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Today’s thought experiment: what if, in the future, museums asked not “how many volunteers do we need” but rather “how can we structure our operations to engage as many volunteers as …
An Afrofuturist School Program Empowers Children to Envision the Future
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Futurism is a powerful tool to share with kids—equipping them to think about the world they want to live in when they grow up, challenging them to make it better. Today on the blog, …