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How do we become comfortable with uncertainty?
Over the past week, I have heard from friends and former colleagues from around the country and beyond. While these connections are the silver lining in the enormous, dark coronavirus cloud, so much of...
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What do you do when you don’t know what to do? Interview with Dean Heffta
Dean Heffta is a consultant who specializes in leadership, strategic vision, and performance training. He is the host of Communication On Point podcast and trains using the Process Communication Model...
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What objects or works of art have resonance for you now?
Art and objects teach us about historical moments, give us comfort, and connect us. What might we collect in a virtual exhibit to illuminate and help us through our experiences with the COVID-19...
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Over the past few months, while struggling with the devastating economic impact of coronavirus on museums, some of the most interesting and useful conversations I have had have been about reinvention....
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TOP FIVE IDEAS for leveraging digital platforms and thinking
This post is the first in a series of interviews with individuals who have ideas for how museum professionals might leverage this moment to think or work in new ways, or how we might do our work more...
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TOP FIVE IDEAS for Online Programs
These ideas come from Julia Lazarus, an experience designer and cultural project producer interested in creative audience engagement, public humanities program development, and strategic cultural...
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How do we address the power dynamics of philanthropy? Interview with Lisa Cowan
Lisa Cowan is Vice President of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation; in this capacity she helps with strategy, development and oversight of foundation programs and grantmaking. Lisa has been working...
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How do we change a museum’s relationship with its building? Interview with...
Dr. Steven Snyder is the President & CEO for the Fleet Science Center in San Diego, CA. Since taking on the role in 2013, Steve has redefined the Fleet’s role, taking it from a science center in...
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How can storytelling promote change? Interview with Lane Beckes
Lane Beckes is Associate Professor of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience at Bradley University. Lane studies social processes at the intersection of cognition, emotion, and neurobiology. His...
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Should museums deaccession art to pay staff?
This post comes out of a conversation between Rebecca Shulman and Jackie Delamatre. You can see other Museum Questions blog posts by Jackie Delamatre here and here. Proceeds from the sale of...
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