Links of the Week: January 28, 2022: Stress Test
Workers are stressed, but the leadership radar is focused elsewhere.
Study Hall: The Org Culture of Self-Examination in Museums
Museum-field studies are interesting, but does institutional org culture prevent real learning?
Links of the Week: January 21, 2022: Traumatic Times
Exploitation around many individual issues is adding up to big trauma for museum workers.
The Illusion of Certainty in the Museum Field Has to End
Museums—and the western business model—are obsessed with certainty. Is there another path?
Links of the Week: January 14, 2022: Unconventional Wisdom
We're mistaken … about a great many things.
Can DAOs Help the Museum Field and Its Workers?
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations could be where blockchain meets museum org culture
Links of the Week: January 7, 2022: Powers of Ten
Some things don't change when the calendar flips, like unsustainable workloads.
The Museum Human Sangha is an Experiment in Liberation
We'll build on our shared knowledge and uncertainty with a Discord community for Museum Human subscribers.
Links of the Week: December 17, 2021: Everything Must Go, part 3
Museum Human finishes the year with links about hybrid work, tech, NFTs, and capitalism.
Top Museum Human Trends of 2021
What's Museum Human's take on 2021, and what's in store for 2022?
Links of the Week: December 10, 2021: Everything Must Go, Part 2
Some end-of-year reading on museums, silos, learning, racism, leadership, and climate
Top Museum Human Posts of 2021
What Museum Human posts meant the most to readers in 2021? Here are some lists of lists …
Links of the Week: December 3, 2021: Everything Must Go
It's been a big year in links … let's start by focusing on change.
So I Missed My Museum's Orientation
Is museum onboarding too inconsistent to make "museum citizenship" a reality?
Museum Home Work (with Survey Results)
A survey reveals that museum workers have mixed views of remote arrangements and often feel that they're coming to the office for no good reason.