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Museum Food Services: Serving up our Missions and Eating our Words

By Elizabeth Merritt

What do visitors eat, when they come to your museum, and what messages do they take away from the experience? We’ve devoted many posts on this blog, over the past year, to celebrating how museums can help their communities improve their …
Help Choose the Next CFM Lecturer!

By Elizabeth Merritt

When I gave you an early peek of CFM’s plans for the year, I dropped a hint about the topic of the 2011 CFM lecture. Now I will spill the beans. We are going to address museums and…food! “Wait,” you may say. “Gaming (Dr. Jane McGonigal) I …
Saving the Historic House—While Saving the World

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week’s guest post is by Laurie Ossman, director of Woodlawn, a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. As I pointed out in an earlier profile of an historic house, museums can use food to build community and tackle …
The Path to Sustainability—Working Together

By Elizabeth Merritt

This is part two of an essay by Sarah S. Brophy, co-chair of AAM’s PIC Green. You can read part one here.For the museum field, the way to close the distance between activities like Seafood Watch and our present-day reality is to take the …
The Path to Sustainability—Just Get Started

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week’s guest blogger, Sarah S. Brophy, is principal of bMuseand co-chair of AAM’s Green Professional Interest Committee (PIC Green). Part two of this essay will go up later this week—stay tuned! Earlier this month the CFM Blog looked …
A Hard Look at Sustainability, Part I: How Pretty Good is the Enemy of Good Enough

By Elizabeth Merritt

Since CFM first gleamed in AAM’s eye, I have had fascinating discussions with members of the Association’s Green Professional Interest Committee (PIC Green). After all, if we don’t figure out how to live sustainably, the future looks …
How Green is Your Museum? A Call for Case Studies

By Elizabeth Merritt

Rachel Madan, director of Greener Museums, is working on Sustainable Museums: Strategies for the 21st Century, a book being published by MuseumsEtc in November, 2010. Rachel has worked with many U.S. and U.K. organizations including Tate, …
Trends in the “Attractions Industry”

By Elizabeth Merritt

Six Key Trends identified by the Attractions Handbook 2010-2011: Greater awareness of the differences between Western markets and the emerging markets of China, India, Russia, the Middle East, South America. For example: Western …
The Future of Conferences, cont.

By Elizabeth Merritt

I blogged last year about AAM’s steps to “go green” with its annual meeting. Fact is, we may face a future in which professional conferences are profoundly different because of heightened sensitivity to travel’s ecological impacts as well …
The Museum of the Future—your vision reflected here?

By Elizabeth Merritt

A friend who works with, but not in, museums has asked me for predictions regarding characteristics of the museum of the future. He is working on an interesting project to create a prototype of the “future museum” in order to generate …