You know the feeling. You think your plan will work. You present confidence to everyone around you. You fire up the crowd, energize s...

Fifteen years ago, my boss kicked me under the table. I was a small fry at a big museum, volunteering for a project I had no business taking...

I remember the exact moment when I snapped. I was at an informal talk by a visitor research professional from a large American art museum....

Every day for the past two months, a man has entered the largest gallery in my museum. He takes a crowbar out of a Swiss Army backpack. ...

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

This is the last of the guest posts offered during this fall season, and it dovetails with last week's post about opening up collections...

We did it. Last week, my museum hosted  Hack the Museum Camp , a 2.5 day adventure in which teams of adults--75 people, of whom about half a...

Over the past three years, the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) has served as the museum poster child for the debate on the public value o...

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to give one of the closing talks at the Theater Communications Group annual conference in Dalla...

What's the biggest professional risk you've taken? What happened after you took the risk?  In three weeks, Kathleen ...

When we talk about museums or cultural institutions as vehicles of social and civic change, what does that really mean? Last week I had a co...

This is a picture of the largest temporary exhibition gallery in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History . Our next exhibition is openi...

I've always been a bit confused when people talk about the impact of a museum or arts institution as being about "more than numbe...

Ever wish for a low-cost, energizing professional development experience where you can work intensely with diverse colleagues in a risk-to...

When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0" based on Tim O'Reilly...

What happens when you let visitors vote on art? Let's look at the statistics from three big participatory projects that wrapped up ...