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.” – …
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, …
A Game for (Future) Good: FutureCoast
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
The first trend CFM tackled, with the help of futurist and games-designer Dr. Jane McGonigal, was the rise of “gaming for good” and the potential for games-design to make museum experiences …
Language/Arts: How the Verbal and Visual Intersect in Museums
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Alliance Blog
A picture is worth a thousand words. Or so the aphorism tells us. What, then, is the value of a single word? That is the question I have explored time and again as an educator in an art …
Don’t Miss the Full Picture
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Museum Magazine
A museum’s financial reports must be crafted and communicated in ways that engender trust and strategic decision-making. This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s May/June 2025 …
A Holistic and People-Centered Approach to Accessible Exhibition Design
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On-Demand Programs
This is a recorded session from the 2025 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Developing an accessible exhibition requires collaboration among museum staff, artists, and audiences. In this …
Reviewing staff and administrative policies
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