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Financial Sustainability
Explore dozens of articles, member resources, and On-Demand Programs on financial sustainability in museums.
Forecasting Giving to Museums in 2012 Through the Giving USA Data
Museums watch current economic trends with a combination of fear and fascination. Every major source of museum income has been undermined in recent years, including private philanthropy …
Water Under the Bridge: Crystal Bridges Defies Critics, Wins Hearts
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2012 edition of the Museum magazine Billionaire Businesswoman Alice Walton amassed a fortune because her father’s company helped …
A More Perfect Union: Museums Merge, Grow Stronger
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2012 edition of the Museum magazine. Museums are living through extraordinary times, suffering from strained budgets, a drop in …
The Reluctant Optimist on the Difficulty of Writing Bright Futures
I recently taught a forecasting workshop at the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections’ 27th annual meeting in New Haven, Conn. To seed our conversations, I recruited a …
Updates to CFM’s 2012 Trends to Watch
Our first annual summary of Dispatches from the Future of Museums—TrendsWatch 2012: Museums and the Pulse of the Future—is getting a lot of attention and commentary, which is great. But as …
Artists, Art, and Historic Sites: A Revitalization of the Past Through Present Creativity
Kate Laurel Burgess-Mac Intosh is an independent museum professional who shares her research on contemporary art/historic site mash-ups on the blog Revitalizing Historic Sites and on …
Our Broken Economic Model
Every so often I realize I am having the same conversation so frequently, I might as well write it down and share it with everyone. Today’s conversation is “How Museums Are Like Newspapers …
A Rising Tide: The Changing Landscape of Risk Assessment
In my time heading the Excellence Programs at AAM (including MAP and Accreditation) it was always a challenge to coax, cajole or even gently bully museums into producing well-tailored risk …
How Museums are Like Bellybuttons and What That Tells Us
I think it’s time to share my omphalic classification scheme for museums. I started using this metaphor while I was directing AAM’s excellence programs (MAP, Accreditation) to capture my …
Report from #FutrChat
Last Thursday eighty-three futurists and museumers participated in #futrchat on Twitter, co-hosted by the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) and CFM. The tweets flew fast and …
Collections and Storage Handling on a Shoestring
Watch this recorded webinar discussing practical solutions to collections storage issues and ways to effectively care for collections using available materials, resources, and your own …
Making the Most of What We Have: Museums & Collaboration
Yesterday, at the orientation for Museums AdvocacyDay, deputy director Cora Marrett of the National Science Foundation predicted that, in a future of increased resource constraints, museums …