Guest Post – Page 13 – American Alliance of Museums

Librarians. Sheesh.

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week’s guest blogger Lauren Silberman, thinks museumers have something to learn from the “Librarians of the Future” and their kin about how to shape the image of their profession. Lauren hearts museums but still likes …
Seeing Individuals in Diversity

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week’s guest post is from Julia Brucker, Museum Education Coordinator at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, Mass. On a chilly spring evening, the lights were still burning at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, Mass. …
Forecasting—The Future of Planning

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s guest post is from Angie Kim, Principal Project Specialist at the Getty Foundation. Angie joined about 40 other participants from various sectors in the daylong working session “Forecasting the Future of California Museums” at the …
Update on Empowering New Immigrants through Art

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week’s guest post is by Patricia Lannes, director of education at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, N.Y. Demographic Transformation and the Future of Museums briefly profiles NCMA’s work with new immigrants. Patricia …
Engaging and Empowering New Immigrants through Art

By Elizabeth Merritt

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

By Elizabeth Merritt

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 …
Hello Museum People!

By Elizabeth Merritt

My name is Pinky and I am from The Pinky Show. Bunny and I were invited do a guest CFM blog, so here we are. We realize that many of you may not know who we are or why we are interested in museums, so we will start with that. We run an …
Shaping the Financial Future of Museums: A Commentary by Marie Malaro

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week’s guest blogger is Marie C. Malaro, a lawyer, author and retired university professor. For many years she was legal counsel for the Smithsonian Institution, and later was Director of the Graduate Program in Museum Studies …
The Future is Collaborative Part II: Early Exemplars

By Elizabeth Merritt

This is the second guest blog post by Günter Waibel, Program Officer at OCLC Research on the convergence of libraries, archives and museums (LAMs.) Read part I here. When OCLC Research recently studied LAM convergence through a workshop …
The Future is Collaborative Part I: Give The People What They Want

By Elizabeth Merritt

About this week’s guest blogger: Günter Waibel is a Program Officer at OCLC Research with a long history of working at the intersection of libraries, archives and museums. He co-authored “Beyond the Silos of the LAMs: Collaboration …