Collaboration for Community Impact
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Museum Magazine
After Facing Change, four historical societies in the Twin Cities are working together to better engage the African American communities …
Full Spectrum: Addressing the Needs of Kids with Autism
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2011 edition of the Museum magazine. An average sixth-grade class is touring your galleries. Most of the children are only mildly …
Protected: Imprint Series: The Social Work of Museums
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Futurist Friday: Seeing the Bigger Picture
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
You can follow FiveBooks (& their cutemanatee mascot) on Twitter@five_books Today, for your weekly fix of futurism, I recommend you bop over to the Five Books site to read …
Announcing Education Future Fiction Challenge Winners
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Hi, Sylvea here… In late January the we invited museum professionals, educators, futurists, education policy advocates, and community allies to contribute their vision of an …
Practicing What We Preach
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Museum Magazine
Museum studies graduate students co-curate a feminist art exhibition to test assumptions on ideal approaches to inclusion. This article originally appeared in the March/April 2020 issue …
From Theory to Practice: Applying Futures Studies
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
A guest post contributed by Joe Cavanaugh, museum director of the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas. Joe was one of Elizabeth Merritt’s classmates in the …
Becoming a Data Startup – Part 1
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Alliance Blog
Have you ever wished you could visualize and analyze some of your museum’s data, but weren’t quite sure how to start? Maybe you’re a museum person who is comfortable with technology, but …
Tech Talk: Microsoft’s Library & Museum Digital Transformation Framework
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On-Demand Programs: Digital Programming
This is a recorded Tech Talk from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. Presented by Microsoft Transcript Catherine Devine: Hi everyone, my name is Catherine Devine and …
To B Corps or not to B Corps—A Case Study
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Some people think that because museums are nonprofits, they are not allowed to make money. Cue my mantra: nonprofit is a tax status, not a business strategy. A financially successful …
Toxic Philanthropy
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
We live in a time in which the public is hyper sensitive to the ethics of where money comes from, and where it goes. As I observed in TrendsWatch 2015, nonprofits don’t get a free pass in …
You, Me, We: Tackling Identity and Discrimination with Young Audiences
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Alliance Blog
In February 2023, Boston Children’s Museum opened a new exhibition called You, Me, We, which encourages families to connect with each other around questions of fairness in the world, …