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Financial Sustainability
Explore dozens of articles, member resources, and On-Demand Programs on financial sustainability in museums.
Wordless Wednesday: Urban Futures
#sustainability #zeroenergy #urbandesign Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) on CFM’s Pinterest Boa…
Wordless Wednesday: Rising Tides & Floating Exhibits
#KnightFoundation #Miami #Sustainability #ClimateChange Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) on …
Monday Musing: Millennial Anti-Materialism
I read an article in the Washington Post last Friday that resonated with some nascent thoughts on the role of museums shaped by audiences born between 1980 and 2000. The story, by Jura …
What Do Ethical Consumers Expect of Museums?
An open letter released today calls on natural history and science museums to “cut all ties with the fossil fuel industry and funders of climate change obfuscation.” The letter, signed by …
Wordless Wednesday: Undersea Sustainability
#Sustainable @CleanEnergy #Australia Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) on CFM’s Pinterest Bo…
More on the Wacky World of Museum Economics
“Food should be more expensive.” That’s a core message of the locavore/sustainable food movement, and it doesn’t resonate so well with most folks. It sounds ridiculous on the face of …
Futurist Friday: Building the City of the Future
Eugène Hénard, ‘The Cities of The Future’, published in American City, January 1911. I just downloaded a report that looks like a fascinating futurist read. “A Visual …
The Multi-dimensional Museum
I was delighted to hear this story over the weekend on NPR, on how the Pacific Science Center opens early, one Saturday each month, to provide an environment tailored to the needs of …
Lost Pleasures
“If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.” –Clement Freud There was an interesting bit of math tucked into the …
On Philanthropy and Paternalism
I’m immersed in writing TrendsWatch 2015 for the rest of the month, which leaves limited bandwidth for blogging. For the next few weeks, I’m going to be sharing brief thoughts, the kind of …
Wordless Wednesday: After the Flood
#RisingTides #Architecture #biomimicry #Brachiopiod Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) on …
What’s a Good CEO Worth?
This is part three in an ongoing series of essays sharing my thoughts on museum economics, training and compensation. Catch up with parts one (The Museum Sacrifice Measure) and two (What is …