Links of the Week: December 3, 2021: Everything Must Go
It's been a big year in links … let's start by focusing on change.
Museum Disruption Revisited (and Dismantling Visited)
Can museum workers really down bring their own system?
Do We Need Museum Collectives?
Can the exceptionalist museum field move in a collaborative, networked direction?
Museums and the Three Crises
What kind of org culture must a museum have to fight the interconnected crises of racism, climate collapse, and fascism?
Is a Different Museum Org a Work of Fiction?
Everyone's asking questions about what a museum should be. Can we change what museums will be?
How Does Hope in Museums Turn into Action?
Hope can lead to transformation—are museums ready to support their workers in the days ahead?
Going Rogue, Revisited
Is ignoring the org structure the best way to make change or just more safe, performative rebellion?
The Current Museum Model Has to Die
A new unconference series demands Death to (the institutional failures of) Museums.
The Museum at the End of the World: "I Didn't Mean It Literally" Edition
What should museums do in the apocalypse? Stop talking about leadership, realism, and the new normal, to start.
We Made a Book!
Two of us self-styled change agents wrote a book about how to deal with change, and then how to deal yourself in.