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Engaging and Empowering New Immigrants through Art
AAM’s recently released forecasting report Demographic Transformation and the Future of Museums highlights the gap between current museum audiences and the majority minority future of American society. The sobering statistics are leavened … -
Building the Future of Museums on a Better Base of Knowledge
This week’s guest blog post is from Betty Farrell and her team at the Cultural Policy Center of the University of Chicago, presenting an abridged version of their recommendations from the report Demographic Transformation and the … -
Museums as Community Catalysts: Museum of Northern Arizona
Many museums aspire to be “conveners,” “dialog centers” and “safe places for conversation.” So it’s nice to be able to share stories of museums living up to this aspiration. This week the Museum of Northern Arizona provided a forum this … -
Demographic Transformation and…What Next? A Call to Action
On May 24th, at our annual meeting in Los Angeles, AAM released the latest CFM trends paper, Demographic Transformation and the Future of Museums. Betty Farrell and her colleagues at the Cultural Policy Center of the University of Chicago, … -
Spotting the Long News
I sometimes use this blog to highlight news items that may presage important developments in the future—the leading edge of trends lapping at our toes. This short TED talk by Kirk Citron asks a good question: how do we know which stories … -
Report from the Future: The Cultural Museum 2.0
It’s a good thing about the future is unequally distributed (cf William Gibson)–that way your museum can learn from pioneer organizations that are adapting to trends that will affect you in five, ten or twenty years. Where do you … -
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The Future of Museums: Mausoleums or Houses of Curiosity?
The following essay by Gregory Rodriguez introduces the Discussion Guide for the second annual CFM lecture, to be webcast next Wednesday, Jan. 27 2–3 p.m. ET. Register for the free webcast. The words “museum” and … -
From Theory to Practice: Applying Futures Studies
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 University of Houston Future Studies Program’s certificate … -
We love Free! We love Research!
If you follow CFM regularly, you know we love Susie Wilkening and James Chung of Reach Advisors. Of course I mean we love their work–notably their CFM report Museums & Society 2034: Trends and Potential Futures. Come to think of …
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Demographics of US Museum-Goers: 2025 Update
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September Monthly Advocacy Alert: Federal Funding, IMLS, and Advocacy Webinar
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