Futurist Friday: Exploring the Future of Education
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I’ve been blogging a lot about the future of education, and the coming of a new educational era. If we are on the cusp of transformational change, it’s very important for museum futurists …
A Free Survey to Measure a Sense of Belonging at Museums
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Alliance Blog
Not everyone wants to visit a museum. This is in part because of operational issues like cost, location, schedule, but these aren’t the whole story. Some don’t even reach the point of …
Search History: Enhancing museum collection access and reducing bias through public input in digital catalogues
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Museum Magazine
Including the public in digital catalogue descriptions will improve access to museum collections and help remove bias. This article originally appeared in Museum magazine’s July/August 2024 …
Leveraging Permanent Collection Objects for Collaboration and Change
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On-Demand Programs
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. Throughout the museum field, institutions have been grappling with how to address problematic objects in their …
Campaign for the Abolition of Nouns
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
“I seem to be a verb”—Buckminster FullerMy beef with nouns:a) they are, at best, approximations—attempts to create clear boundaries for identities that are inherently fuzzy b) As they …
Museums in Good Health
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Museum Magazine
The article originally appeared in the January/February 2014 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of membership with the Alliance. An adapted excerpt from Museums On Call: How Museums Are …
Museums and Digital Strategy Today
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Technology
Over the past decade, museums around the world have been adapting to the fast-pace of technical change and have debated a variety of approaches to digital strategy and whether to integrate …
Labor 3.0: Museums and Co-working Spaces
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Finding a stable business model for museums in the 21st century is going to take more than patching the old income streams. The goals and expectations of government funding and philanthropy …
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 …
Becoming a Data Startup – Part 2
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Alliance Blog
It’s time again for our next installment of Becoming a Data Startup! For those of you who read along in our last post, you learned some simple tips and tricks for formatting your data that …
What Does a Welcoming Online Collections Portal Look Like?
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Alliance Blog
In late February 2020, the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University became the latest institution to launch an online collections portal, a feature that is increasingly …
Bringing a Collections Catalogue to Life
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
When the Walker Art Center launched their redesigned website in 2011, it was hailed as a “game-changer,” changing the focus of the site from the museum as destination to the museum as …