Links of the Week: July 22, 2021: Tech Race to Space
Are museum workers really waiting on spacefaring tech billionaires to save us?
Museum Work in an Age of Anxiety
Are museums and workers ready to confront existential threats to their very existence?
Links of the Week: July 15, 2021: Paradoxes All the Way Down
Museums are adopting an attitude of relentless cautious optimism to mask uncertainty and paradox.
The NFT Conundrum for Museums
Can museums resist the latest get-rich-quick-(by-making-others-poor) scheme?
Links of the Week: July 8, 2021: The Race Still to Run
Are museums really treating racism in the field as a problem requiring transformation?
What Kind of Museum Leaders Do We Want?
Do museums need different leaders or different ideas about museum leadership?
Links of the Week: July 1, 2021: Fear Itself
What about remote work has museum leaders so afraid?
The End of the Museum Worker Silent Majority?
The return-to-workplace push may finally expose the cost of worker silence in museums.
Links of the Week: June 24, 2021: After Juneteenth
Museums' belief in an unchangeable model is blocking the hard work of addressing institutional racism.
Agency and Autonomy in Museums
Autonomy and agency are the internal and external forms of self-actualization that all museum workers need.
Links of the Week: June 17, 2021: Mindsets, revisited
Museums are full of mindsets, like most organizations. What behaviors are being excused?
Collaboration, Revisited
Will hybrid workplaces in museums bring some progress in the collaboration conundrum?
Links of the Week: June 10, 2021: Where Will You Work?
Has fear of an empty workplace supplanted promised org humanism and flexibility?
Links of the Week: June 3, 2021: Museums, Docs, and AI
Museums are reopening, but are they ready for tough questions about purpose, membership, and AI?