I remember the first staff meeting I ever ran. I had just started at the MAH as the new executive director. The museum was in huge financi...

Last month, I sat in the back of a meeting room at the MAH and watched something extraordinary happen. Our county board of supervisors had...

This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance in advance of its release. I wrote this book because of a ...

Where are you most able to execute your mission: inside your facility, or outside of it? There are a lot of reasons we focus on work ins...

For the past two years, I've been working on a project to activate the concrete space adjacent to our museum as a vibrant, community p...

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of t...

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has  a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program th...

Like a lot of organizations, my museum struggles with two conflicting goals: The museum should be for everyone in our community. It...

This guest post was written by my incredible colleagues, Stacey Marie Garcia and Emily Hope Dobkin, with minimal input from me. It started a...

It's not every day that a visitor buys pizza for everyone in the museum. Or that visitors form a spontaneous "laugh circle"...

I promise--after this post, I'll stop writing about this. But we've just compiled all our attendance data for the past year at the S...

A year ago, I wrote a post speculating about whether events (institutionally-produced programs) might be a primary driver for people to a...

How do you develop programs that are responsive to your community in a meaningful way? How do you find out what's important to differe...

Recently, my colleagues have gone wild for Pinterest . Pinterest is an online sharing tool that allows you to construct virtual bulletin b...

Two weeks ago, two of my staff members came to me with a problem. They were planning a wall mural for our classroom. They planned to ...