Let's say you want your organization to be rooted in your community. To be of value to your community. To reflect and represent your c...

For the past five years, each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has hosted MuseumCamp . MuseumCamp is a professional deve...

You run a regional museum. It's been struggling financially for years. Now, you have a new vision--co-created with trustees and comm...

Last month, I went to an amazing training called the Skid Row School for Social Change . The mission of the Skid Row School is to train le...

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

When I have a day to myself, there are two things I like to do most in this world: work. work out. To celebrate the confluence betwee...

Earlier this month, I went to a conference that renewed my faith in conferences. I first sensed the difference at the front door. There wa...

My original "kitchen table" brainstorm. The Packard Foundation asked me to write a blog post about our 2016 staff restructurin...

It's 8am in the classroom; 5am in my body. I'm sitting at my assigned seat, next to a man who sells trailers in in Indiana, a woma...

The Museum 2.0 blog started because of a conference. In 2006, I attended a big conference for the first time (ASTC). I went alone, sent with...