Innovation – Page 6 – American Alliance of Museums

Mapping the Future

By Elizabeth Merritt

The Institute for the Future and Business for Social Responsibility have released their Sustainability Outlook Map charting four potential stories of the future. The map explores ways of approaching challenges to the environmental, social …
What’s Innovation Look Like? And How Do You Measure It?

By Elizabeth Merritt

A few weeks ago, we used this spaceto invite museums to participate in the Nonprofit Listening Post Project at Johns Hopkins University. Reminder: the LP Project is a national research initiative designed to identify the challenges facing …
Dialogue Centres—Wave of the Future?

By Robert Janes

This week’s CFM guest blogger is Robert Janes, editor-in-chief of Museum Management and Curatorship, Chair of the Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley and former president and CEO of the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Canada. (Hence the …
Tomorrow’s News, Today: Museums without Walls

By Elizabeth Merritt

One of the assumptions that CFM questioned early on is that museums are necessarily tied to a particular place. I’ve speculated about whether and when a museum might want to migrate to a new city or community. On a more local scale, why …
Sneak Preview of a New Museum Game

By John Maccabee

CFM has from its inception has explored what museums can learn from games, and game design. In this guest post, John Maccabee, of San Francisco based CityMystery, gives readers an early glimpse into the creation of a new, multi-museum …
Beyond the Talking Heads: an experiment in format at the AAM annual meeting

By Elizabeth Merritt

You may have noticed, when submitting session proposals for conferences, that everyone seems to be encouraging something more creative and interactive than the usual “talking head” panel format. My favorite responses to this challenge are …