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Good Questions
Asking good questions is essential to museum practice. Exhibitions are explorations of a topic, often driven by a curator’s curiosity, even when not explicitly framed around a question. Tours explore...
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The Everything Museum
As a newcomer to Peoria, Illinois, last week’s Illinois Association of Museums conference was a great way to learn about the local museum landscape. In particular, I find the “everything” museum of...
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Visitor Feedback, By Blog Post
In our socially networked world, posts about museums make the rounds fast. These posts are often applauded, decried, or laughed at. But they are useful for something more: we can mine these posts for...
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Arts Education Elevator Speech: Everything You See Here Was Imagined
At the Face to Face conference last March, Russell Granet urged me to draft an elevator speech – a quick and cogent argument for why the arts matter. Russell noted that this is something the arts...
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Why Should Schools Visit Museums?
A current project of mine calls for a very specific justification of school visits to museums. I believe strongly that school groups should visit museums, and that museums should provide great programs...
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Museum Boards
This week I had coffee with a former museum director, who spoke at length about his former museum’s Board of Directors. He said that when he began his tenure at the museum, the Board’s approach to...
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Question Collection I
Recently both the New York Times and the Washington Post have published articles sharing great college admissions questions. Of particular note are the questions from the University of Chicago, which...
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The Business of Museums
In a recent on-line discussion, I found myself enmeshed in a prickly debate about whether museums should be operated as businesses. Some great points were made on the “pro-business” side: museums need...
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We have moved!
On the advice of some wise people, I have separated my blog from my consulting website. I will now blog at this site. If you are following this blog, please now follow me at museumquestions.com.
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