A decade ago, between stints in grad school, I worked in marketing for the Long Beach Symphony Association. It was an exciting year; the orchestra was seeking a new conductor, and in the organization used the transition as an excuse to revisit its subscription packages. Previously, the house pricing map looked similar to this one [...]
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What will the museum of the future look like?
I wrote this post for a more general audience at BlogHer, but the post ended up including a nice round-up of links, so I’m sharing it here as well, along with a couple of provocative questions near the end of the post. Late last year, the American Association of Museums released a discussion paper titled [...]
What can museums learn from the decline of American newspapers?
(Cross-posted at BlogHer) Those of you who know me well know that my husband is an all-around, old-time, self-described “newspaperman.” He’s done writing, editing, photography, graphic design, web design, telepimping (coordinating a newspaper’s classified-ad and voicemail-based dating service), and anything having to do with “putting the paper to bed”—that is, getting it to the printer. [...]
Millennials in the museum: an educational dilemma
Although I teach in a museum studies graduate program (and wish I could do it full-time), my primary job is to help faculty become more thoughtful about teaching undergraduates at the University of California, Davis. Since I began working in the university’s Teaching Resources Center, faculty have come to me for assistance with myriad issues, [...]
10 tips for visiting museums with girls
(Cross-posted at BlogHer) I know this content of this post isn’t news for the museum professionals who read this blog, but I get some search traffic from people looking for more general information about museum-going. This post is meant for them. Did you know that during conversations they have about science museum exhibits, parents are [...]
Museums and Civic Discourse
Last Saturday, I was fortunate to attend the “Museums and Civic Discourse” symposium at John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley. The room was packed with some West Coast and national leaders in the field–really some amazing women there (and a few men, too). The symposium sought to imagine what civic discourse in museums might look [...]