What Are You Going to Build?: Creating a ‘Brighter World’ through International Exchange
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Alliance Blog
We stood near the back of a crowded art room surrounded by mismatched couches and stools where students fresh out of class and/or work for the day were seated: one rummaging through her …
Lessons in Foresight
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
When I wooed the American Council of Learned Societies last year, proposing they assign CFM one of their public fellows, I promised that the Alliance would provide futurist training for the …
Exploring the Sixth Extinction through Immersive Theater
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
One of the most-read guest posts of 2017 on the CFM blog shared how immersive theater helped one Connecticut museum build new audiences. Since the topic evidently struck a chord with …
Quick Thoughts from the CFM Lecture
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
My mind is still reeling from the boffo lecture Gregory Rodriguez delivered for the Center for the Future of Museums Wednesday night at the Embassy of Canada here in Washington, DC. It is …
Stacking the Futurist Deck
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I’m the first to admit it can be hard to catapult from dealing with today’s urgent problems to thinking about the long-term future. Fortunately, futurists have developed many tools to help …
Futurist Friday: Apocalypse for One
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Yesterday Stuart Candy, on his Skeptical Futuryst Blog, drew readers’ attention to a dark, elaborate scenario that played out on UK television last year. “Derren Brown: …
All In The Family: It’s win-win when museums engage homeschoolers.
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2013 edition of Museum magazine. It’s 9:30 on a Tuesday morning, and already the museum shop of 19th-century author Washington …
A Q&A with Dirk Hiscock, Designer of This Year’s Winner for Excellence in Publication Design
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Alliance Blog
After reviewing hundreds of entries every year, the jury for AAM’s annual Museum Publications Design Competition awards only one publication with the Frances Smyth-Ravenel Prize for …
Day 3: A Visit from the Authorities
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This is the third installment of a “diary of the future” I wrote a decade ago, exploring what the world might be like in 2019. My story takes place in a scenario created by the Institute …
At The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation the Play’s the Thing
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Museum Magazine
With its museum theater program, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation cultivates creativity in interpretation without compromi…
Chatting About Museums with ChatGPT
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Two months ago, the research and development lab OpenAI released ChatGPT, an interactive “chatbot” powered by artificial intelligence. Chatbots aren’t new (I’ve been writing about …
A History of Museum Resilience: Q&A with Author Samuel Redman
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Alliance Blog
When the pandemic arrived and made its far-reaching impact on our people and institutions, many wondered if we would ever recover. Few could recall such an existential crisis during their …