Hello World! Or maybe hello museum world! I feel a bit like a child walking around in someone else’s, slightly bigger shoes taking over ...

I first read about Story House Belvédère on Jasper Visser’s excellent blog, The Museum of the Future . This small, startup cultural projec...

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...

In October of 2015, I got a call from a community partner. The Beach Flats Community Garden was under threat, and this friend of the garde...

Every once in a while I look at my growing toddler and think: time will never go backwards. She'll never be this age again. Sometimes,...

The quest for relevance begins with knowing your audience. Who are the people with whom you want to connect? What are their dreams, their im...

Last month at the AAM conference, a speaker said, "we should all be using measures of quality of life  to measure success at our muse...

Close your eyes and imagine your organization's "community." Is it a mist of good feeling? A fellowship of uncertainty? Does...

Our work to transform the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History into a participatory and community-centered place has been heavily suppor...

Rebecca sat down next to me at breakfast and asked, "How was the hike yesterday?"   I replied, "Good. It was more of a wal...

Early this month, I got the chance to hear legendary game designer Will Wright (Sim City) give a talk. I've followed Wright's work...

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

Reader, I was wrong. In 2008, I wrote a post arguing that museums should focus on the pre-visit, not the post-visit, if they want to ca...