Datafication, Playlistification, and Museum Everything

Museum experience—for visitors and workers alike—is more complex than data alone can explain.

Links of the Week: September 26, 2025: Running a-Middle-Ground

Just what are we supposed to do with all this news?

Museums, Their Workers, and the "Middle Ground"

Are museums seeking a middle ground that doesn't exist? And what does that mean for museum workers?

Links of the Week: September 19, 2025: Last Year Calling

Are our stories changing or just getting more urgent?

Links of the Week: September 12, 2025: Like a Bull in a Museum Gift Shop

What does a year's worth of articles look like?

Museum Work and B*llshit Jobs

Museum work isn't BS—but are bad workplaces and organizations making museum jobs that way?

Links of the Week: September 5, 2025: Back in Read

Is there such a thing as reading too much?

Yes, This Thing Is Still On

Museum Human has been reading and studying to help keep the writing relevant. Especially now.

Links of the Week: January 31, 2025: The Year that Was, The Year that Is

Let's start off the year in links with a pile from last year.

Is There a "Joy Division" in Facing the World's Problems? A Review of Hospicing Modernity and What If We Get It Right?

Two recent books approach climate and societal collapse from different sides of the apparent doomer/hoptimism divide—with a side question of joyfulness.

Museum Human's End-of-Year Reading Break Rundown

You get a lot of reading done when you actually read.

Museum Human Plans—and Plans within Plans—for 2025

When things change, so can we—while also remembering what's important to us.

Links of the Week: November 26, 2024: Looking Back to Look Ahead, Post-Election Edition

What's keeping us from learning anything from recent events?

Do Museums Need to Go Bigger Than Just Minimally Viable?

Is there such a thing as too many MVPs?