A Greener Tomorrow: Museums Take Steps Toward Sustainability
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2012 edition of the Museum magazine. According to AAM’s Code of Ethics for Museums, the common mission of our institutions is their …
Beyond the Four-Legged Chicken
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2010 edition of Museum magazine. A History of Museum Registration In 1881, an important moment occurred in the history of registration. …
Twelve Museum Innovations in 2023
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Dispatches from the Center for the Future of Museums is a museum newsletter like none other, offering far-reaching analysis of emerging social, technological, economic, environmental, and …
Printing the Future
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
When I read that MakerBot was opening its first retail outlet, located in NYC, I sent a tweet-out looking for a volunteer to be CFM’s futurist-on-the-street. That is how I connected with …
Thinking About Inclusive Museums in the UK
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Hi, Nicole here! As part of my work as a Mellon/ACLS fellow with CFM, I’m focusing on a constellation of issues related to museums and labor, including pathways to museum employment; wage …
Essential Evaluators: What’s in Your Soup?
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Alliance Blog
Essential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. …
Resisting the Colonial Imagination: The Role of Exhibition Design in the Decolonial Project
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Exhibition Journal
It is Monday morning at First Americans Museum (FAM), and a group of fifth graders are bustling with excitement as they embark on a gallery tour. A museum educator welcomes the students in …
Beyond Compliance at the McClung Museum
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Museum Magazine
At the McClung Museum, a NAGPRA assessment strengthens collaboration with Native Nations on a current and future …
Curating Trauma and Violence: Preparing and Caring for Communities and Staff
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On-Demand Programs
This is a recorded session from the 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo. In this recorded session, museum professionals from various institutions – a museum focused on the Holocaust, a …
Taking A Fresh Look At Provenance
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2016 issue of Museum magazine. Pursuing a future in which provenance research and data are efficient, accessible, and equitable. Museums …
Artificial Intelligence The Rise Of The Intelligent Machine
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a …
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