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Is Your Museum Selling Out? Try This Game About Revenue And Ethics

The stupid fetish of free admission, and the end of the British Museum . In it, he argues that the British Museum's value has been se...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

Imagine a concise, well-designed report on audiences for cultural activities in a large urban city. Imagine it peppered with snappy graphi...