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Innovation Lab for Museums: Tips for a Successful Application

By Elizabeth Merritt

Thank you, MetLife Foundation! I did a Snoopy Happy Dance when I got the good news that you are funding a second round of Innovation Lab for Museums. AAM and EmcArts have just released the Request for Proposals. You can read about the Lab …
How will museums be embedded in the school day of the future?

By Elizabeth Merritt

Famous futurist quote: “The future is already here, it is just not equally distributed.” (William Gibson) In other words, hints of any plausible future already exist somewhere in the world around us. A future in which no one has to own, or …
Innovation Ignites: Announcing the 2012 Lab Museums

By Elizabeth Merritt

Cue fanfare! I am so happy to share with you the names of the museums that have been selected to participate in the inaugural round of Innovation Lab for Museums. AAM is bringing Innovation Lab to the museum field through a partnership …
Building a Better Fishing Pole: how technology-focused organizations can help their museum community

By Elizabeth Merritt

Many museums are struggling to navigate the expanding universes of social media and digital content with the slim resources available to them in constrained budgets. Fortunately, some entrepreneurial museums are breaking trail—pooling …
Innovation Lab: nurturing nonconformity and half-baked ideas

By Elizabeth Merritt

“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will not themselves be realized.”—Daniel Burnham When I previewed CFM’s plans for 2011, I said we would “establish mechanisms to foster innovation and …
The Transformative Power of Innovation

By Elizabeth Merritt

This guest post is by Richard Evans, president, EmcArts Inc. AAM is partnering with EmcArts, with the generous support of MetLife Foundation, to offer Innovation Lab for Museums. The Request for Proposals for the Lab has just been …
Museums Shaping Cities

By Elizabeth Merritt

One crucial way museums can change the world is to help people in their communities improve their own environments. I want to spotlight a few notable examples that have crossed my radar recently. The National Building Museum’s Intelligent …
Helix: Scaffolding #21211

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s guest post comes to you from Tracy Hicks. Here he shares with you some of his thoughts over the evolution of his piece that will be on display in Houston at the AAM Annual Meeting. Be sure to also visit Hicks’ website …
Preview of Houston: Exploring the Future of Natural History Museums

By Elizabeth Merritt

At the AAM meeting in Houston this May, artist Tracy Hicks will create an installation on the future of natural history museums and the influence of natural history museums on the future of the earth. One of the things I love about Tracy’s …
Museums & Community: Steampunk Love

By Elizabeth Merritt

This weekend, the city of Waltham, Mass. will host International Steampunk City. Presented by the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation, this “con” (convention) mashes together industrial history, Victorian culture and fashion, …