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Financial Sustainability
Explore dozens of articles, member resources, and On-Demand Programs on financial sustainability in museums.
When Leaders Won’t Lead: Taking Action on Climate Change
Museums can change the world, especially when they recruit their visitors to take action. When the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site speaks out against mass incarceration, the B.B. …
Wordless Wednesday: Valentine Taxidermy
@QMUL museum #pathology #taxidermy #datenight #AltIncome Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) …
Monday Musing: Travel and Tourism
Among the stories I included in Dispatches from the Future of Museums last week was a piece from Quartz Media speculating that the US could be on the verge of “tourism shock.” I’m worried …
Painting in Blue
I became interested in Amy Herman’s work for several reasons. She harnesses the power of art to teach empathy, helping people in positions of power—be it medicine or law enforcement—relate …
Wordless Wednesday: a floating urban future
@koenolthuis @WaterstudioNL #SeaTree #RisingTides#architecture #sustainability Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future …
Dream Big: the Alliance in an Age of Scale
I want to share with you the Alliance’s vision for how museums could play a major role in filling the need for high-quality, equitable early childhood education in the US. Back in June I …
Monday Musing: Well well
To file under Financial Sustainability, subheading “Potential New Income Streams”:I just finished reading an article in Fast Company on the surge in “wellness …
Playing in the Museum Sandbox
Readers of CFM’s TrendsWatch reports and followers of this Blog will know of my fascination with the emerging business model of museums running co-working spaces. It’s such a genius use of …
FutureProofing Natural History Collections
When the Alliance chose financial sustainability as one of three areas of focus for our new strategic plan, I gravitated to one of the hardest challenges of all: how can we help create …
Monday Musing: the future of philanthropy
I included an essay by David Callahan in last week’s edition of Dispatches from the Future of Museums because I was struck by his projections of how government budget …
The Future of Museums (According to One Woman)
I was delighted to be interviewed for an issue of MISC Journal devoted to The Future According to Women. As the introduction notes, “The future we read about is made up of recycled bits of …
Design Briefs: Art Museum as Innovation Incubator
One of the themes explored in Trendswatch 2014 is the rise of social entrepreneurship—the practice of linking profitable business models with socially beneficial outcomes. In the report, I …