Museums - Museum Human (Page 6)

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a Terrible Thing for Museums to Waste

Workplaces are only getting busier. How do museum workers find time to think?

Keeping Ourselves Real in Our Museum Work

The workplace psychology movement of the week is a call for authenticity. Do museums have a particular office honesty problem?

A Year of Shattered Expectations

I started writing a year-end blog post several times, but it felt weird and delusional, like I was ignoring the approaching giant planet ready to destroy the Earth.

Museums in an Age of Despair

If you work in a museum, the title of this post is a no-brainer, but it is also part of the problem.

Call It The Human League: Museum Computer Network 2016

MCN2016 was a great, positive, uplifting conference, and it happened—and election night doesn't change that. A commitment to real, impactful change was never more important.

This Month I'll Be on Medium

For most of October 2016, my good friend Jennifer Foley, of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, and I were exchanging letters on Medium about some contentious words in museum practice.

Playing Favorites: Personal Taste and Working in a Museum

When you work in a museum, how do you decide on your favorite work in the collection? And should that change over time?

Robert J Weisberg

Sep 19, 2016 • 4 min read

Digital publishing

Mission Driven on a Capitalist Superhighway

Will museums always be monetizing from here on out?

Tag, You're It: Museums and the Internet of Stuff

The micro-location revolution promises more information for museums and their visitors than ever. But do we already have too much "stuff" in the museum? And how do we keep track of it all?

The Event Horizon of Digital Skills and Museum Staff

Museum workers need comprehensive digital skills that are fairly and equally distributed. Will we end up with digital haves and have-nots in the museum?

Diversity in Museums: a Follow-Up

Are the privileged—including myself—ready to look in that mirror? My post last week on diversity got a lot of positive responses, but I'm more grateful for the ones which pointed out mistakes and implications in what I wrote.