Change at Work

The Illusion of Certainty in the Museum Field Has to End

Museums—and the western business model—are obsessed with certainty. Is there another path?

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.

Links of the Week: August 5, 2021: Bubble Bath

Times of uncertainty breed bubbles from greed and desperation. What do these mean for museums?

Museum Work in an Age of Anxiety

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

Against the Museum Smartocracy

Museums aren't just meritocracies. They are organizations that identify with smarts above all else. (Yes, even money.)

Do We Need Museum Collectives?

Can the exceptionalist museum field move in a collaborative, networked direction?

Does Hope Belong in a Museum?

What will save museums—optimism or hope?

What Museums Mean by Transparency

"Transparency" joins the performative hit parade in museum organizational culture.

The Current Museum Model Has to Die

A new unconference series demands Death to (the institutional failures of) Museums.

Normal, Disrupted

What normal are all of us in museums—leaders, workers—trying to get back to? Is there a better "no-normal" out there?