Future of Education – American Alliance of Museums

Education for Our Children

By Elizabeth Merritt

This is an excerpt from TrendsWatch: Museums as Community Infrastructure. The full report is available as a free PDF download. “Given the challenges we face, education doesn’t need to be reformed—it needs to be transformed.” —Sir Ken …
Museums Can Help Transform Education

By Katherine Prince

Last week I spent an inspiring afternoon in a Zoom workshop dedicated to envisioning “liberatory futures” for P-12 education. How can we collectively create an educational future that is rooted in equity, self-determination, and the right …
Opportunities for Museums to Lead for the Future of Learning

By Katherine Prince

When the Alliance launched the Center of the Future of Museums a decade ago, museum people told us loud and clear that they wanted us to explore the future of education as part of our work. Over the years we’ve created an extensive …
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 …
My Primary School is at the Museum – Squaring the Circle

By Wendy James and Sage Morgan-Hubbard

Greetings! This is Sage and I am excited to announce that we are reposting this great article because I am about to fly to Manchester, England to attend the Museum Association’s conference and be on a panel with these wonderful …
Learning by Design: A New Era for Education at the Computer History Museum

By Lauren Silver

Here at the Computer History Museum (CHM), we are deep in the midst of planning for the opening of a new Education Center. What began as a way to create more space for our growing programs has become over time a catalyst for what I’ve …
Museum Work as Socially Engaged Art

By Elizabeth Merritt

Hi, Nicole here! During January’s inaugural leg of the Future of Education Road Trip, my fellow fellow Sage Morgan-Hubbard and I were wowed (and not a little moved) by our meeting with Socially Engaged Artist daniel johnson at …
Reflections on the SE Future of Education Road Trip with SEMC Executive Director Susan Perry…

By Elizabeth Merritt

Greetings! Sage here from CFM to explore our Future of Education Road Trip once again, this time in the context of the entire Southeast region with the Southeastern Museums Conference director Susan Perry, who was a great resource to us in …
Lessons on Museums and Labor from the Southeast

By Elizabeth Merritt

Hi all, Nicole here. Today, I want to share some of my thoughts about museums and the future of museum work that have evolved in the wake of last month’s inaugural Future of Education Road Trip. Over the course of the trip, I had a chance …
Future of Education Road-Trip: Some Thoughts and Thanks

By Elizabeth Merritt

Octavia in action Hi, Nicole here. Sage and I would like to thank all of the museum professionals, students, educators and artists who gave of themselves to support the inaugural Future of Education Road Trip! Thanks, as well, to the …