10 December 2021

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

30 November 2021

So I Missed My Museum's Orientation

Is museum onboarding too inconsistent to make "museum citizenship" a reality?

23 November 2021

Museum Home Work (with Survey Results)

A survey reveals that museum workers have mixed views of remote arrangements and often feel that they're coming to the office for no good reason.

16 November 2021

Are We Entering a Post-Museum-Conference Era?

I loved the virtual museum conferences I attended this year, but is it time for a different model altogether?

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.

03 August 2021

What Is "Org Culture" in Museums, Anyway?

Defining organizational culture in cultural organizations can be difficult, which is both its challenge and its potential.

15 June 2021

Collaboration, Revisited

Will hybrid workplaces in museums bring some progress in the collaboration conundrum?

08 June 2021

Co-Creation Requires a Museum Field Re-Creation

More museums are co-creating, but a deep and widespread practice will require a new org culture.

03 June 2021

Links of the Week: June 3, 2021: Museums, Docs, and AI

Museums are reopening, but are they ready for tough questions about purpose, membership, and AI?

18 May 2021

TMPR for Museum Workers, Part 4: Resources

This four-part series ends with Resources—can museums move past scarcity to abundance for their workers and orgs?

11 May 2021

TMPR for Museum Workers, Part 3: People

A four-part series continues with the place of people in the museum field. It's not as obvious as you think.

04 May 2021

TMPR for Museum Workers, Part 2: Money

A four-part series continues with the relationship of museum workers and their institutions to money and value.

27 April 2021

TMPR: A New Acronym for Museum Workers (Part 1: Time)

The first in a series of four posts about Time, Money, People, and Resources in museum work and in museum workers' lives.

26 March 2021

Busyness, Revisited

The cult of busyness is the museum field's daily expression of weaponized and exploited time.

23 February 2021

How to Make Museum Work Flexible, not Fauxible

Flexible work is not just schedules and policies. It's roles, skills, mindsets, and more. Otherwise it's fake flexibility: fauxibility.