Links of the Week: October 4, 2024: Imagining and Building Something New

We're having trouble communicating. Is that a feature or fault of modern life?

After the App Is Gone: Museum-Field Conversation Post Bird

Museum professionals are despairing about conversations without a certain social media platform. But is the issue bigger than just one app?

Links of the Week: August 9, 2024: What Were You Expecting?

Are museums and their workers still capable of being surprised?

Links of the Week: July 12, 2024: The Workplace Evolution

Are we being honest about museum org culture problems?

Links of the Week: May 31, 2024: Think about the Future

Museums as institutions don't collectively ponder their futures enough.

Report from the Future: A Design Fiction Tale by Isabella Bruno

Where our researcher presents findings from an initial time travel mission.

Links of the Week: April 12, 2024: Innovation Station

Innovation is a practice, which is part of the problem but all of the opportunity.

Links of the Week: March 22, 2024: A Map to Buried Treasure?

Half of any good map is the process of making your own.

Links of the Week: March 15, 2024: The Ides of Change

Change isn't as simple as one event.

Links of the Week: March 1, 2024: Futures and Presents, Perfect and Imperfect

Speculative fiction only works if we understand our past and present.

Introducing the Museum in the Future Project

Museum Human launches a new short speculative fiction series about museums in the future.

The View from Up There: a Review of The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues by András Szántó

A 2020 leader-focused book on the future of museums is more than meets the eye.

Complexity, Simplicity, and Collapse, Part 3: You Are Here

Museums use hierarchy to deal with complexity, but confronting collapse requires something else.

The Museum Doctors: Interview with Jose Antonio Gordillo Martorell of Cultural Inquiry

What if museums didn't just listen to children and communities, but did what they were told?

Links of the Week: August 26, 2022: More on the Long View

Taking a long view without centering humanity is no view at all.