Mindfulness is a Terrible Thing for Museums to Waste
Workplaces are only getting busier. How do museum workers find time to think?
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Museums
A collection of 107 posts
Keeping Ourselves Real in Our Museum Work
The workplace psychology movement of the week is a call for authenticity. Do museums have a particular office honesty problem?
A Year of Shattered Expectations
I started writing a year-end blog post several times, but it felt weird and delusional, like I was ignoring the approaching giant planet ready to destroy the Earth.
Museums in an Age of Despair
If you work in a museum, the title of this post is a no-brainer, but it is also part of the problem.
Call It The Human League: Museum Computer Network 2016
MCN2016 was a great, positive, uplifting conference, and it happened—and election night doesn't change that. A commitment to real, impactful change was never more important.
This Month I'll Be on Medium
For most of October 2016, my good friend Jennifer Foley, of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, and I were exchanging letters on Medium about some contentious words in museum practice.
Playing Favorites: Personal Taste and Working in a Museum
When you work in a museum, how do you decide on your favorite work in the collection? And should that change over time?
Mission Driven on a Capitalist Superhighway
Will museums always be monetizing from here on out?
Tag, You're It: Museums and the Internet of Stuff
The micro-location revolution promises more information for museums and their visitors than ever. But do we already have too much "stuff" in the museum? And how do we keep track of it all?
The Event Horizon of Digital Skills and Museum Staff
Museum workers need comprehensive digital skills that are fairly and equally distributed. Will we end up with digital haves and have-nots in the museum?