Do Museums Need to Care about Foodies?
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This guest post is by Susie Wilkening, senior consultant and curator of museum audiences, Reach Advisors. We’ve been blogging a lot about food, leading up to the symposium Feeding …
Is History Haunted?: Three museums explain their supernatural programs
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Alliance Blog
Around October, the weather gets cold, the days get shorter, and the spine begins to tingle. People start looking for eerie activities to scratch the itch, whether haunted houses, horror …
New TrendsWatch! Navigating a Disrupted Future
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
In a normal year, TrendsWatch explores the impact emerging forces of change may have on museums in the next decade or longer. Some, such as demographic shifts, affect all museums in the …
Innovation Lab for Museums, Round 2
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
MetLife Foundation, EmcArts and AAM issued a press release yesterday, announcing the second round of participants in Innovation Lab for Museums. I’m pleased that these three projects …
The Future—Brought to You By
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
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 …
Shhhhhh… it’s a surpise!
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
The National Museum of American History has been exploring the American Experience through the study of American food and foodways for the past 15 years through its Food and Wine History …
Food: the Universal Communicator
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Today’s guest post is by Jennifer Rothman, associate vice president for children’s and public education at the New York Botanical Garden. Jennifer contributes to our ongoing exploration of …
Pride Goes Virtual: #MuseumPrideParade & Your Online Community
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Alliance Blog
Authors’ Note: Given the events of June and campaigns supporting #BlackLivesMatter, and conversations with many of you, we do not feel it is appropriate to flood the feeds with a …
Creating Restorative Moments at Woodland Park Zoo
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Museum Magazine
Woodland Park Zoo’s Hope & Healing offers uplifting community experiences for people facing life-altering challenges. This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s May/June 2024 …
Supporting the Mental Health of Museum Staff
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I’ve been in close communication with some of the museum directors using CFM resources—including TrendsWatch reports and the AAM Strategic Foresight Toolkit—to inform their planning and …
Creating the New
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
How many of you know of dysfunctional relationships between universities and museums? Hark–I hear a forest of hands rise across the land. Too often colleges and universities fail to …
Conferencing While Introverted
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Annual Meeting
Something that I hear a lot of first-time museum conference attendees say is that they’re worried about being an introvert in such a demanding, extroverted environment. So I thought, for my …