Museum Disruption Revisited (and Dismantling Visited)

Can museum workers really down bring their own system?

Links of the Week: October 29, 2021: Museum Field Scares

The museum field is full of fear, and not the fun kind.

What Kind of Museum Leaders Do We Want?

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

Agency and Autonomy in Museums

Autonomy and agency are the internal and external forms of self-actualization that all museum workers need.

Links of the Week: May 20, 2021: Reflections of …

A couple of people—and orgs—I follow have been in a remembering mood.

Deaccessioning and Museum Organizational Culture

What does the deaccessioning controversy reveal about the place of museum workers in the organization?

How to Make Museum Work Flexible, not Fauxible

Flexible work is not just schedules and policies. It's roles, skills, mindsets, and more. Otherwise it's fake flexibility: fauxibility.

Are Museums Really Ready for Audience Research?

Museums' audience research efforts are undermined by troubling organizational trends.

Museums in an Age of Redux

A look back at a post from four years ago—are museums any more ready to resist authoritarianism, even in their own org culture?

What Museums Mean by Transparency

"Transparency" joins the performative hit parade in museum organizational culture.

Museum Leadership for the Rest of Us

Is it time to stop looking for leaders to guide us out of this pestilential age—and start looking to networks of people to rise to the challenge?

The Museum at the End of the World: "I Didn't Mean It Literally" Edition

What should museums do in the apocalypse? Stop talking about leadership, realism, and the new normal, to start.