This is the fourth in a  series of posts  on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of  Abbott Square , a new ...

On December 18, at 10am PT/1pm ET, I invite you to join the denizens of Museum 2.0, Museum Commons , and Incluseum for a 30-min tweetchat...

A few weeks ago, debates in England got me thinking about the relative ethics of sources of museum revenue. The London Science Museum an...

There are plenty of great arguments out there for WHY to make museums free. But HOW do you do it? It's much easier for art and histo...

Last week's New York Times special section on museums featured a lead article by David Gelles on Wooing a New Generation of Museum Pat...

Last week, I learned that ninety-six elephants are killed every day in Africa. I learned this at a conference for directors of American ...

Tis the season for end of the year fundraising letters. Now that I run a museum, I read this mail with particular interest. I'm always ...

A couple weeks ago, I had a conversation with a funder that shocked me. If you asked me a month ago what the biggest barrier was to Americ...

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable qu...

"Fundraising is about relationships." "The key to fundraising is listening." "Development works when you are respon...

Let's say you want to make a documentary about the World Cup . Or sail around the world . Or produce an art exhibit with elementary scho...