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Financial Sustainability
Explore dozens of articles, member resources, and On-Demand Programs on financial sustainability in museums.
The Future—Brought to You By
Ever wonder how CFM can deliver so much content to the field for free? I get that question a lot, from museum professionals as I travel, and from staff of other associations wondering how …
Museums are the Future of Education
Earlier this year, I shared some thoughts regarding the future of education with face-to-face and on-line attendees at Museums Advocacy Day. My thesis, which I’ve advanced on this blog …
A Museum in Every Community?
Accreditation Commissioner Bill Eiland recently stopped by my office to share his concerns about the hundreds of small communities in the South struggling to maintain their culture, …
CFM Returns to the Future with TrendsWatch 2013
The Alliance has just released TrendsWatch 2013: Back to the Future, CFM’s second annual watch list of important emergent trends. If we’re right, and the trends we’ve tagged this year shape …
No Future
The Field Museum of Natural History recently announced that it is cutting its budget by 7%—$5 million from its overall budget of ~$70 million—with $3 million of this coming out of the …
Finding Community: Engaging Diverse Audiences in a Historic House
In April, 2007, a small but influential group of historic house professionals, association and foundation staff gathered at Kykuit, the historic Rockefeller Estate in Pocantico Hills, NY, …
Pop-Up Museums…On Main Street
One of the themes CFM explored in TrendsWatch 2012 was pop-up culture: the public’s growing appetite for mobile, transitory retail, culinary or cultural experiences. Today’s blog post is by …
The Freegan Museum: Notes from an Experiment in Progress.
This Monday I posted some brief thoughts on free museum memberships, sparked by the experiment being launched by the Dallas Museum of Art. Bob Barzan, director of the Modesto Art Museum …
Monday Musings: The Price of a Free Membership
Monday musings are my way of sharing brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently, with the hope that it will generate discussion and response. With that in mind, what …
The Genomics of Art, Education & Commerce: Part I
Recently I blogged about Art.sy, a service built on “The Art Genome Project” that enables users to discover, learn about, and collect art that is suggested to them via a mathematical …
One from each Category: Part 2
Time for a brain stretch. This is part two of a quick review of recent scanning hits in five STEEP categories of forecasting—this one covers economic, environmental and political …
Checks and Imbalances: The Challenges of Presidential Libraries
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2012 edition of Museum magazine. Presidential libraries are in fact archives and museums. They display exhibitions, both permanent …