The Empathetic Museum: Help Widen the Conversation

Following up on  June 7 and June 29  posts on empathy in museums, six museum colleagues from a variety of areas in the field are proposing a session called “The Empathetic Museum”  for the  May 2014 American Alliance of Museums Conference in Seattle, WA.  I’m one of the panelists, so this is a shameless plea for…

Museum Transformation: A Voice of Experience

Banner for website. Courtesy of Boston Stories. I recently discovered a great resource for all the current discussions about Museums for the 21st Century.  It’s a site about a  90-year-old museum that grew to prominence more than 50 years ago, but was so far ahead of its time that its collective wisdom remains applicable today.  The site…