The Museum Field's Twin Obsessions with Scarcity and Growth
Museums are addicted to institutional growth but precarity for their people.
Digital Museum Publishing is Still Trying in 2020
In a pandemic world, is digital publishing an answer for museums—or the same problem in different packaging?
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?
Museum Leadership for the Rest of Us
Is it time to stop looking for leaders to guide us out of this pestilential age—and start looking to networks of people to rise to the challenge?
Agile for What?
The museum sector has been talking for years about the need for agility. But just what are we trying to be agile for?
How Museums Can Really Have Engaged Employees
Surveys on museum employee engagement are now commonplace. But real engagement comes from accountability, and that starts with respect for all staff.
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.
Who Decides Who Gets to "Fix" Tech?
Technologists, especially some who were responsible for the rise of surveillance capitalist behemoths, are declaring technology broken and proposing humanist solutions. What could be wrong with that? And what does this mean for museums?
The Connection of Museums, Technology, and Entrepreneurship
Though Samantha is guiding the creation of amazing gallery experiences and I’m obsessing on organizational change from within museums, it turned out that we had a lot of concerns in common.
Autumn is Coming
Between my conference workand the non-stop slow apocalypse we find ourselves in, it never felt like the right time to write about museums as workplaces or museums and organizational culture.
Games, Digital Pubs, and Voices: an Interview with Susan Edwards of the Hammer Museum
So many of us in the museum technology field are a multitude of different experiences and backgrounds. Susan Edwards fits that to a T.
Mindfulness is a Terrible Thing for Museums to Waste
Workplaces are only getting busier. How do museum workers find time to think?