Empathy

Museums, Their Workers, and the "Middle Ground"

Are museums seeking a middle ground that doesn't exist? And what does that mean for museum workers?

Links of the Week: September 5, 2025: Back in Read

Is there such a thing as reading too much?

Links of the Week: June 21, 2024: Trust Busting or Trust Building?

Museums can't preach trust in society without enacting it internally.

The Mindset to Matter: A Review of Why Museums Matter and Videogames and the Public Museum

Are museum leaders and workers speaking languages too different for institutions to thrive?

Links of the Week: March 29, 2024: Supporting Team Spirits

Grief is just one emotion that workplaces and teams have to learn to process.

Complexity, Simplicity, and Collapse, Part 2: Vibepocalyse Now

Is facing up to our dire reality really just a matter of vibes?

Awareness of Self and Others in Museum Work

If we don't have the time for awareness of ourselves, how can museum workers serve audiences and society?

Can Museums Prioritize Civics, Wellbeing, and Technology All at Once?

A brief virtual conference made a game attempt to link civics, in a partisan age, staff wellbeing, and technology.

People's Goals and Progress Space—A Chat with Kyle Bowen of Museums As Progress

Instead of obsessing about institutional growth, museums should think more about people's progress.

The Analytics and Intuition Dilemma for Museum Workers

Data and analytics are important for museums, but intuition and genius need to be democratized, too.