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Backcasting: Or, how to apply 20:20 hindsight to museum planning

By Elizabeth Merritt

“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,’ says the White Queen to Alice.” ― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass In today’s post, I’m going to introduce you to backcasting, a planning method that helps people …

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