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.
Topic
Workplace
A collection of 89 issues
The Burnout Dilemma
Is burnout in the museum field something particular to the sector, or just another expression of the rotten Matrix? And which do we tackle first?
Is MCN now the Museum Change Network?
The Museum Computer Network 2017 conference was heavy on change, leadership, and navigating the org chart. Have we entered a "post-digital" era of "always be changing" in museum technology?
Can the Museum Workplace Be More Human?
Two intense, long, emotional days at the personal-authenticity-and-development end of the organizational culture spectrum.
Mindfulness is a Terrible Thing for Museums to Waste
Workplaces are only getting busier. How do museum workers find time to think?
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?
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.
What We in Museums Talk about When We Talk about Diversity
Are museums ready for what a real commitment to diversity will entail?
What We Talk about When We Talk about Silos
It turned out that our collective war on silos was a war on other people's silos.