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DIGITAL DIASPORA FAMILY REUNION: Curating Family Stories in The Digital Museum

By Elizabeth Merritt

Recently, reading EmcArts’ Audio Postcards documenting the 2011 Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund (CIF) awardees, this video caught my attention: “These guys may not know it,” I thought, “but they are creating a crowdsourced …
Unschooling, Museums & Learning Models for this Century

By Elizabeth Merritt

One trend highlighted in TrendsWatch 2012 is America’s jittering progress towards a new educational era. I’ve been exploring a number of alternate futures for our learning landscape, in this blog and in the article “The Future of …
Does a Museum Need Four Walls?

By Elizabeth Merritt

One theme featured in TrendsWatch 2012 is “Takin’ It to the Streets”—the rise of pop-up and mobile retail, cultural and social experiences. Throughout the year we will monitor how this trend is playing out in museums. Today’s guest post, …
Planning A Phenomenon: The Benefits of Consistency

By Elizabeth Merritt

Readers of this blog may already be familiar with the Philbrook Museum of Art and its savvy use of social media, via this popular poston their Cat Cam. Today Jeff Martin, online communities manager for PMA, gives us an update on their …
Experience Design & the Future of Third Place

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s post is by futurist Garry Golden, who frequently collaborates with me on CFM projects. Garry is co-author of Tomorrow in the Golden State: Museums and the Future of California, and is currently the lead instructor for the …
FLUX | AAM – CFM

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week, guest blogger Peter Kimelman, founding director of the FLUX Foundation, previews his group’s participatory art project at the upcoming AAM annual meeting. One of PK’s recent projects was conducting research on wine and design …
Report from the Horizon Project 10th Anniversary Retreat

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s guest blogger is Marsha Semmel, director of strategic pPartnerships at the Institute for Museum and Library Services. In late January, I joined several museum professionals (including CFM’s Elizabeth Merritt!) and approximately …
Future Babble by Dan Gardner

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s recommended reading is contributed by Rob Waller, president of the Protect Heritage Corporation. Prior to PHC, Rob spent thirty-three years at the Canadian Museum of Nature, including periods as chief of the Conservation Section …
Open Authority & the Future of Museum Ethics

By Elizabeth Merritt

Lori Byrd Phillips is the U.S. Cultural Partnerships Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedian in Residence at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. As a museum studies graduate student at Indiana University-Purdue …
The Future of Funding

By Elizabeth Merritt

Everyone wants to know what the next business model for museums may be. Will they morph into hybrid nonprofit/for-profit social benefit corporations? Lose tax exempt status entirely? In today’s post Carl Hamm, immediate past chair of the …