Hustle Culture, Revisited, part 2: What I've Learned about Museums from Making Museum Human What have I learned about the museum field from eight years of making Museum Human?
How Can Different Groups in the Museum Agree on Impact? Museums—and their departments and workers—are increasingly concerned about impact beyond the institution. But can museums have impact externally when they may not agree on just what it means—or how to get there—internally?
Links of the Week: March 1, 2024: Futures and Presents, Perfect and Imperfect Speculative fiction only works if we understand our past and present.
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: February 9, 2024: Leaders All the Way Down? Leadership is a practice, not a set of positions. How are museums practicing their leadership?
The View from Up There: a Review of The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues by András Szántó A 2020 leader-focused book on the future of museums is more than meets the eye.
What Do Museums Need to Do to Move Forward for Their Workers? Museums being honest know that equity, fairness, and justice are organizational problems. Are they avoiding the necessary solutions?
Is the Fall of the Museum Workplace a Matter of Time? Is 2024 the year that museum work stops making sense, for good?
Links of the Week: November 17, 2023: Everything Everywhere After a virtual conference considered the Future of Museums, can we find common ground between civics, tech, and worker wellbeing?
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?