2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo
Event Date:
Baltimore, MD
Posts
Center for the Future of Museums Blog
The Center for the Future of Museums Blog shares musings on the future of museums and society.
Museums with a Future: Prioritizing Climate Resilience to Respond to a Changing World
This year’s TrendsWatch report spotlights the urgent need for humanity to curb our carbon emissions if we are to stave off the worst extremes of climate change. The term …
A Growing Backlash to DEI
Do you remember seeing this picture attempting to illustrate the difference between equality and equity? Now it also illustrates the latest battleground in the new culture wars. While a …
Consensual Curation and Our Common Future
The best thinking about potential futures explores the full span of the Cone of Plausibility. By expanding our understanding of what is possible, we expand our choices regarding what is …
Join Me to Create a Future of Reparative Practice at AAM 2024
It’s 2044, and around the nation, and throughout the world, US museums are seen as valued stewards and honored partners in the critical work of supporting communities and preserving …
Recruiting the Future of the Future
I am very happy to announce that the Alliance is recruiting an Assistant Director for the Center for the Future of Museums. I hope you will broadcast that news, and help us find the person …
Your Guide to the Future at AAM 2024
Hello museum people—I hope to see you in Baltimore, MD, May 16-19 for the 2024 Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. There are always so many great sessions on the program that a common quandary …
Racing into the Future with TrendsWatch 2024
It’s that time again! Check your mailbox for the 2024 edition of TrendsWatch, AAM’s annual forecasting report. Starting last year, we began publishing TrendsWatch as the Jan/Feb edition of …
Uncovering Future Artifacts: Come Play
Museums sit at the balance point of past and future. Most often they apply their scholarship and curiosity to exploring things that have actually happened, but museums can flip that lens to …
When the Ancestors Call to You
When we think about barriers to change, practical issues like time, money, and legal issues often are top of mind. This can be true, for example, when museums talk about repatriation, …
ISO Stories about the Future of Voluntary Repatriation, Restitution, and Reparations
From the digital desk of Elizabeth Merritt, Vice President, Strategic Foresight and Founding Director, Center for the Future of Museums: Museum people are natural storytellers, attuned to …
Twelve Museum Innovations in 2023
Dispatches from the Center for the Future of Museums is a museum newsletter like none other, offering far-reaching analysis of emerging social, technological, economic, environmental, and …
Seeding the Future at the New Children’s Museum
I’m a huge fan of speculative fiction—stories with the power to immerse us in the daily reality of possible futures deeply and viscerally. We can fall in love with fiction in a way we …
Upcoming Events
Adaptability for Sustainability: Evolving Beyond Your Institution’s Past to Influence Its Future – OMA Webinar
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Ohio Museums Association
Planning for Collections Storage
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The Southeastern Museums Conference
Practical Strategies for the Care of Film and Glass Negatives
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FAIC/C2C Care
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Guiding Light: How Values Exercises Can Help You Present Challenging Content
Category:
Alliance Blog
Editor’s Note: If you’re interested in experiencing Ashley’s wellness work for yourself, come see her at AAM 2024, where she’ll lead two unique “Empathy in …
How Book Bans Might Impact Museums: A Q&A with PEN America’s Jonathan Friedman
Category:
Alliance Blog
If you follow the news, you’ve likely seen a surge in headlines about censorship and book-banning, with libraries and schools under protest, and teachers and librarians facing a barrage of …
Faces of Baltimore Museums: Gage Branda
Category:
Alliance Blog
Have you heard about AAM 2024 in Baltimore this month? (We hope so—we’re doing our best!) If so, you might have seen one of our ads for this year’s edition, featuring a lovely …