Links of the Week: March 22, 2024: A Map to Buried Treasure?
Half of any good map is the process of making your own.
Will the Challenge of AI Inspire Museums and Workers to Innovate Together? An Interview with Deb Howes
How do museums navigate the AI landscape between the rock of institutional/staff obsolescence and the hard place of private profiteering?
Links of the Week: November 3, 2023: MAP Your Museum's Culture
Do museums have the organizational culture to tackle real problems in real ways?
Everything Counts when Moving Teams Beyond Burnout: a Chat with Jen Holmes
Leading better teams is a constant process—and the most rewarding workplace practice.
Wrong, Revisited: Museum Worker Pain Points
Can we be wrong and right about museum-field pain points at the same time?
Links of the Week: January 20, 2023: Ready to Learn?
Can organizations learn how to be better throughout?
Links of the Week: August 26, 2022: More on the Long View
Taking a long view without centering humanity is no view at all.
We Need to Complicate Our Narratives of Progress
A new book questions the progress narrative of Western civilization, and museum workers should take note.
Study Hall: The Org Culture of Self-Examination in Museums
Museum-field studies are interesting, but does institutional org culture prevent real learning?
Links of the Week: December 10, 2021: Everything Must Go, Part 2
Some end-of-year reading on museums, silos, learning, racism, leadership, and climate
Are Museums Really Ready for Audience Research?
Museums' audience research efforts are undermined by troubling organizational trends.
Do We Need Museum Collectives?
Can the exceptionalist museum field move in a collaborative, networked direction?
How to Fix Professional Development Classes in Museums
A broken museum model has made staff learning a failure. It's time to put workers in charge for a change.
I, Jargoneer
Museum workers are done with buzzwords. So how do we move from words to real impact?
The Not-So-Fine Art of Being Wrong in Museums
Changing your mind? Open to opinions? The museum field doesn't seem to value I-don't-know-it-alls.