• Musarians: The bastard children of museums and libraries.

    In today’s guest post, AAM staffer Lauren Silberman, continues her exploration of the entwined futures of libraries and museums. Her first, massively popular post, speculated on what museums can learn from librarians of the future. What …
  • Food: the Universal Communicator

    Today’s guest post is by Jennifer Rothman, associate vice president for children’s and public education at the New York Botanical Garden. Jennifer contributes to our ongoing exploration of museums, food and community. Interested? Join …
  • Starting a Museum: Advice from the Trenches

    Today’s guest post is by Liz Williams, president of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum in New Orleans (SoFAB). SoFAB “celebrates, interprets, investigates, entertains and preserves”—and in this museum, preservation means jam as well as …
  • Museum Ethics in a Gilded Age

    This week’s guest post by Erik Ledbetter, principal of Heritage Management Solutions and special adviser to the Forecasting the Future of Museum Ethics project currently underway in partnership with Seton Hall University’s Institute of …
  • Creating your own Arcadia: Where do you start?

    I’m often asked, “What will be the financial model be for museums in the future?” That model may well combine the idealism and mission-driven focus of nonprofits with strategies adapted from the for-profit realm. This week’s guest post is …
  • Big Food: Health, Culture and the Evolution of Eating

    Ella Mitchell, an intern in AAM’s Government Relations and Advocacy department, reports on an innovative collaboration between the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, and CARE—Community Alliance …
  • At the Phillips, Just Take the Stairs

    Today’s guest video is introduced by Dorothy Kosinski, director of The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. For me, the future of museums has a lot to do with supporting an overall sense of well-being for our visitors and community. In …
  • More Crowdsourced Scholarship: Citizen History

    Today’s guest post is by Elissa Frankle, an education consultant at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. When not coordinating and raving about the Children of the Lodz Ghetto Citizen History project, she trains law enforcement …
  • The Future of Museum Ethics: Launching the Forecast

    This week, the Center for the Future of Museums and the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University launch the Future of Museum Ethics forecast, a project to identify emerging issues in museum ethics. This week’s guest post by Erik …
  • Introducing Food Day!

    Today’s guest post is by Carolina Sánchez-Hervás, Food Day assistant coordinator at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit watchdog group that advocates for nutrition and health, food safety, alcohol policy and sound …

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