The Center for the Future of Museums, an initiative of the American Alliance of Museums (@AAMers).
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19 Jul 2023
An overview of @AAMer's latest museum snapshot survey, with suggestions for how museums might use the data for their own planning aam-us.org/2023/07/19/say-ch…
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27 Jun 2023
NEW: Findings from our snapshot of US museums—fielded March-April 2023—reveal while many museums continue to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, field-wide recovery remains inconsistent and it will take years for many to rebound.
Access the full report: aam-us.org/2023/06/27/2023-a…
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7 Jun 2023
What, for example, are the negative effects of using Twitter? #CognitiveDissonanceTweet
5 Jun 2023
Digital practices offer many benefits to museums and their audiences, but at what cost?
The @FutureofMuseums asks institutions to consider the external impact of digital activities on society and the environment, with prompts for further discussion: aam-us.org/2023/05/31/techno…
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31 May 2023
Weighing the social & environmental costs of digital: some provocations for the museum sector from @futureofmuseums aam-us.org/2023/05/31/techno… Reactions welcome @nhoneysett @nancyproctor @nealstimler @coreytimpson @angie_dexibit @EnvCulturePrs
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24 Apr 2023
Many of my museum friends are also writers. Rise to this challenge? @EnvCulturePrs
Imagine 2200: Write the future grist.org/climate-fiction/im…
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17 Apr 2023
One of the great joys of creating TrendsWatch is highlighting the good work of museums across the nation and the globe.
13 Apr 2023
Thank you to @AAMers for highlighting the important, bi-partisan, work we do here at @RonaldReagan in Simi Valley, CA and as a part of the Institute in our nation's capital! 🇺🇸 Read more about the importance of museums & educational legacy institutions: aam-us.org/2023/01/13/the-pa…
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29 Mar 2023
How @MOCHAarts museum's Community Futures School uses Afrofuturism to empower youth with ancestral wisdom, cultural knowledge, and the plausible thought that resiliency is the answer aam-us.org/2023/03/28/an-afr…
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29 Mar 2023
Signal boost! #creativeaging
We’ve launched our FREE, self-paced online course, Creative Aging Foundations On Demand! Explore nearly 80 instructional videos in whatever order you choose walk away with a roadmap for you or your org! Learn more/access at beagefriendly.org. #creativeagingondemand
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21 Mar 2023
.@Leopold_Museum has hung 15 landscape paintings by Courbet, Schiele, Klimt & others, at an angle for the nxt 2 months. Degrees of tilt represent the number of degrees by which temperatures will rise at locations depicted, absent climate action abcnews.go.com/International… w/ @_CCCA_
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15 Mar 2023
Tickets now available for my annual Diving into Foresight workshop at #AAM2023. It has sold out each time we offered it, so act soon. The workshop alumni are a fab group. Can't wait to see who I get to work with this year annualmeeting.aam-us.org/reg…
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15 Mar 2023
Research signal boost! More better data...
The National Visitation Survey closes TODAY! Please take the survey if you haven't already to help us create a report about visitation to history organizations of all types and sizes in 2022. Take the survey at surveymonkey.com/r/AASLH2023….
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14 Mar 2023
Signal boost! New book from @ninaksimon "Nothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door."
14 Mar 2023
Oh! And to all my library friends and avid readers, MOTHER-DAUGHTER MURDER NIGHT is now up on @NetGalley and @edelweiss_squad for digital review.
I would be so honored if you were one of the first folks to read it!
netgalley.com/catalog/book/2…
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14 Mar 2023
How can a sci-fi vision of 2180 help us confront the violence inflicted on Pueblo peoples in 1680? This week on the CFM blog, Virgil Ortiz shares how his practice of Indigenous futurism illuminates the past aam-us.org/2023/03/14/virgil…
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14 Mar 2023
Great essay by Weronika Parfianowicz on breaking the vicious cycle of overproduction in arts and culture kunsten.be/en/now-in-the-art…
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9 Mar 2023
Great work by @mmmooshme Recommended read
9 Mar 2023
📚 New book! "Making Dinosaurs Dance: A Toolkit for Digital Design in Museums" offers tools and techniques to help your museum enhance the visitor experiences through digital design. rowman.com/ISBN/978153815973…
Browse all our titles to refresh your shelf! bit.ly/aam-press-titles
ALT A graphic for "New Release | Making Dinosaurs Dance A Toolkit for Digital Design in Museums by Barry Joseph | bit.ly/aam-press-titles | AAM Members receive a discount on AAM Press titles" The AAM Press logo and the cover design of the book
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8 Mar 2023
"Digital twin" = a virtual model that replicates the behavior of a physical system, often w/ real time data input. So, no, a digital image of a painting is not a digital twin (cool tho that sounds) Agree/disagree. @nancyproctor @lili_czarina @nhoneysett @nealstimler @coreytimpson
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7 Mar 2023
40% of arts orgs have or plan to have permanent remote work policies & a majority find this helps them attract & retain staff advisoryboardarts.com/benchm… new data from @AdvisoryArts
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