Point of View: Fearless Leadership for Uncertain Times
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Museum Magazine
How current and emerging museum leaders can shift their mindset from fear to fierce. This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s September/October 2024 issue, a benefit of …
The Future of Food
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I’m finishing my edits to a manuscript that grew out of CFM’s Feeding the Spirit Symposium in Pittsburgh last year. The discussion guide we assembled for the subsequent webcast is …
Museums Can Change the World: Improving the Nation’s Health
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
A projection for the U.S., by 2030: Obesity prevalence will rise to ~50% in men between 45% and 52% in women. There will be: 7.8 million extra cases of diabetes; 6.8 million more cases of …
Ten Uplifting Museum Stories of 2020
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This year my scanning feeds were clogged with relentlessly depressing news. My heart was eased, however, by the way that museums rose to the challenges posed by 2020. Here are a dozen …
Effective Museums and Exhibits Should Build Community: La Rodadora
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Exhibition Journal
This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2022) Vol. 41 No. 2 and is reproduced with permission. www.name-aam.org. If you don’t read the journal, learn how you can …
Your Guide to the Future at the Annual Meeting
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
At the AAM annual meeting next month, I’ll be spending much of my time at the AAM Showcase in MuseumExpo™, hanging out with the Drawing Club—our 2012 Artists Interpreting the Future of …
Chang Tang Nature Reserve
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2013 edition of the Museum Magazine. This center of heaven, This core of the earth, This heart of the world, Fenced round with snow, The …
How Does Your Garden Grow?
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2013 edition of Museum magazine. Managed landscapes at museums enhance the visitor experience. When visitors step into an urban museum …
Badging in Baltimore: Report from the Annual Meeting
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
In the spirit of “practice what you forecast,” CFM experimented with digital badging at the annual meeting last week. With the help of LearningTimes, we offered a badge to attendees who …
Diving Deeper into Truth, Trust, and Fake News
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Alliance Blog
In this series of posts, EdCom’s Trends Committee is taking a deeper look at emerging phenomena identified in the 2019 edition of TrendsWatch from the Center for the Future of Museums. …
The Top Ten Alliance Blog Posts of 2020
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Alliance Blog
If 2019 was a “whirlwind year,” 2020 was a full-blown tornado. Forces that had been gathering speed in the museum field—like growing emphases on digital content and diversity, equity, …
Your Guide to the Future at the Annual Meeting 2015
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This is your futurist’s guide to our upcoming conference. There are loads of great sessions, so you will have to make some ruthless choices. Here are a few of my picks, tagged both for …