These are the notes and slides for a keynote speech I'm giving this Saturday at MuseumNext in Indianapolis. If you'll be there...

Blessing of the Replica Boards, July 19, 2015, 8am. Photo by Jon Bailiff. Relevance is not an end unto itself. It is a bridge. When you ...

For the past few weeks, I've been writing about relevance and museums. The conversation in the comments on each post has been fascinatin...

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Wh...

In pop culture-land, relevance is all about now. Who's hot. What's trending. If people on the street are talking about X, the muse...

"We want our museum to be relevant." I've heard (and said) this many times. But what does it mean for a cultural instituti...

Dear reader, Today is my birthday. I decided to give myself a gift this year: permission to change the Museum 2.0 blog. I've been ...

Last week on this blog, I tried an experiment . I wanted to open up conversation about how we judge the relative ethics of various sources...

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

I’ve always been inspired by the creative ways the Brooklyn Museum uses technology to connect visitors to museum content. Now, the Broo...