25 July 2023

Museums and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

You make more money from money than from growth—or income. And this should matter to museum workers.

30 May 2023

AI is NOT Coming for Your Museum Job (but Someone Else May Be)—Part 2

Who will decide how AI helps—or replaces—museum work?

23 May 2023

AI is NOT Coming for Your Museum Job (but Someone Else May Be)—Part 1

Does anyone actually know what AI is capable of—and who will suffer in trying to figure that out?

05 May 2023

Links of the Week: May 5, 2023: The Mismatch Game

We're hired as matches for our teams, but mismatches are more common in our orgs.

28 March 2023

The Museum Doctors: Interview with Jose Antonio Gordillo Martorell of Cultural Inquiry

What if museums didn't just listen to children and communities, but did what they were told?

21 March 2023

Wrong, Revisited: Museum Worker Pain Points

Can we be wrong and right about museum-field pain points at the same time?

03 March 2023

Links of the Week: March 3, 2023: Minding the Gaps

Sometimes it's what's missing that defines our workplaces.

29 July 2022

Links of the Week: July 29, 2022: Going Deep

When a story is ending, what needs to change—the story or the storytellers?

22 March 2022

The "Cultural Translation" Burden in Museum Work

Is the fine art of cultural translation another organizational trap for museum workers?

01 March 2022

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.

08 February 2022

Roles, Responsibilities, and Hats in Museum Work

What does it mean if our museum jobs are doomed to be undescribable to other museum workers?

05 November 2021

Links of the Week: November 5, 2021: Hybrid Check-in

Everyone's writing about the Great Resignation. Is anyone doing anything about it, besides leaving? And, a survey!

29 October 2021

Links of the Week: October 29, 2021: Museum Field Scares

The museum field is full of fear, and not the fun kind.

09 April 2021

Last Exit to Interview

Can museums do better with exit interviews? An immodest proposal.

24 November 2020

The Capitalism Conundrum for Museum Workers

Is there another way for the museum sector besides all-encompassing capitalism? Thoughts on week two of MCN 2020.