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Meet Me in Houston, and Let’s Aim for the Stars!

By Elizabeth Merritt

Want be a pioneer in the ranks of museum futurists? Read on. CFM has on its to-do list starting a Museum Forecasting Network. The Network will draw on the experience of a diverse group of museum practitioners to preview trends within …
Brits discuss the future of museums

By Philip Katz

Two new internet sightings remind me that the future of museums is a lively topic of debate in the United Kingdom. Vaughan Allen, director of the URBIS arts center in Manchester, looks at “the future of museums, galleries, citizenship and …
Opportunity for Engagement: Volunteer to Listen for the Future

By Elizabeth Merritt

Even before the 2008 founding of the Center for the Future of Museums, AAM was helping the field detect the winds of change through partnership with the Johns Hopkins Nonprofit Listening Post Project. This project helps the nonprofit …
Building a Self-Study Course in Futurism

By Elizabeth Merritt

One of CFM’s major goals is to encourage museum practitioners to think and plan for a longer time frame (longer, that is, than the usual one to three-year plan.) In our rapidly changing, uber-connected world a plan that looks good in the …
Train as a Futurist!

By Elizabeth Merritt

Three upcoming opportunities to get some futurist training: The Symposium on the Future is an online conference presented by the New Media Consortium (NMC) October 27–29, 2009. Particularly aimed at educators and creatives, the conference …
Forecasting the Future of Accessibility in Museums

By Elizabeth Merritt

I am getting ready for a presentation at the Leadership and Excellence in Accessible Design (LEAD) conference to be held at the Kennedy Center later this month. The presentation will ask and try to answer two big questions—what will the …