Automation and museum work, part II: the museum metaverse

Is there another reality where museum workers can leave bad org culture behind?

Links of the Week: August 12, 2021: Workplace Return or Rapture?

What if the get-back-to-the-building museum leaders are the ones risking irrelevance?

Automation and Museum Work, Part I: The Search

Automation in museum work is a search—but are we looking for efficiency or humanity?

Links of the Week: August 5, 2021: Bubble Bath

Times of uncertainty breed bubbles from greed and desperation. What do these mean for museums?

What Is "Org Culture" in Museums, Anyway?

Defining organizational culture in cultural organizations can be difficult, which is both its challenge and its potential.

Links of the Week: July 29, 2021: Time is it After Us

The unequal distribution of time is a museum-field tragedy

Introverts and Extroverts in Museum Work

Is a museum workplace possible which benefits introverts, extroverts, and everyone who's both and in between?

Links of the Week: July 22, 2021: Tech Race to Space

Are museum workers really waiting on spacefaring tech billionaires to save us?

Museum Work in an Age of Anxiety

Are museums and workers ready to confront existential threats to their very existence?

Links of the Week: July 15, 2021: Paradoxes All the Way Down

Museums are adopting an attitude of relentless cautious optimism to mask uncertainty and paradox.

The NFT Conundrum for Museums

Can museums resist the latest get-rich-quick-(by-making-others-poor) scheme?

Links of the Week: July 8, 2021: The Race Still to Run

Are museums really treating racism in the field as a problem requiring transformation?

What Kind of Museum Leaders Do We Want?

Do museums need different leaders or different ideas about museum leadership?

Links of the Week: July 1, 2021: Fear Itself

What about remote work has museum leaders so afraid?

The End of the Museum Worker Silent Majority?

The return-to-workplace push may finally expose the cost of worker silence in museums.