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Navigating a Disrupted Future at #AAM2021
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogHow 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 … -
A Holistic and People-Centered Approach to Accessible Exhibition Design: Walker Art Center Case Study
Category: Exhibition JournalThis article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2025) Vol. 44 No. 2 and is reproduced with permission. Developing an accessible exhibition requires collaboration between … -
Vanishing Space: Interpreting Agricultural Change in Real Time
This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. Collin County has been a farming community since its … -
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
Category: 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
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogToday’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
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogFuturism 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, … -
Centering the Cellphone, Decentering the Museum
Category: Exhibition JournalThis article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2026) Vol. 45 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. In 2019, an 11th-grader from the District of Columbia talked with … -
A Game for (Future) Good: FutureCoast
Category: Center for the Future of Museums BlogThe 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
Category: Alliance BlogA 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 …
