Links of the Week: April 22, 2022: Museum Field Hot Takes

Museum professionals have no shortage of hot takes about the field

Transforming Workplace Time in Museums

Museum leaders have been reacting to crises. What if museum workers just started transforming their time?

We Ignore the Museum Busyness Elephant at Our Peril

Museum workloads are undermining the entire remote/return discussion and so much more.

AOC, Rock Stars, and Leaderless Movements in Museum Orgs

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a star, but the rock star system isn't helping politics—or museums.

Links of the Week: January 28, 2022: Stress Test

Workers are stressed, but the leadership radar is focused elsewhere.

Links of the Week: January 21, 2022: Traumatic Times

Exploitation around many individual issues is adding up to big trauma for museum workers.

Links of the Week: January 14, 2022: Unconventional Wisdom

We're mistaken … about a great many things.

Links of the Week: January 7, 2022: Powers of Ten

Some things don't change when the calendar flips, like unsustainable workloads.

The Museum Human Sangha is an Experiment in Liberation

We'll build on our shared knowledge and uncertainty with a Discord community for Museum Human subscribers.

So I Missed My Museum's Orientation

Is museum onboarding too inconsistent to make "museum citizenship" a reality?

Boundaries in Museum Work

Boundaries are good, except when they keep us apart. Can museum work manage both?

Resilience, Revisited

Is resilience in the museum sector just another individualized solution to structural problems?

Links of the Week: September 17, 2021: The Great Exhausting

The Great Resignation is here, but is there a deeper issue lurking in the museum field?

Museum Work in an Age of Anxiety

Are museums and workers ready to confront existential threats to their very existence?

Links of the Week: April 22, 2021: What's Really Tiring …

After the Minneapolis guilty verdicts earlier this week, here are some links about exhaustion.