The report includes case studies and a discussion of conceptual frameworks that can guide libraries, archives, and museums that seek to spark catalytic change in their communities.
Museums
Room to Rise the Lasting Impact of Intensive teen Programs in Art Museums
Room to Rise is the result of a multi-year collaboration between the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, theContemporary Arts Museum Houston, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, with support from a National Leadership Grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.
(Museum) Trendswatch 2016
TrendsWatch 2016 highlights five trends that CFM’s staff and advisors believe are highly significant to museums and their communities, based on our scanning and analysis over the past year.
Building the Future of Education: Museums and the Learning Ecosystem
In September 2013, over four dozen educational policy experts, practitioners, funders, education innovators, reformers, student activists and others shaping the conversation about U.S. education converged on the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. Their goal: to launch a national dialogue about the future of education and how leaders from the worlds of education and museums can work together to integrate the nation’s educational assets into a vibrant learning grid.
Trendswatch 2014
This report is our annual overview of trends observed in the course of a year producing Dispatches from the Future of Museums, CFM’s free e-newsletter.
Bringing the Museum to the Community
When the Museum of Craft and Design closed its doors in 2010 in search of a new location, it turned to pop-up exhibitions as a way to stay visible and continue serving the community. Two and half years and several pop-ups later, the museum once again has a permanent space. Detailed in this case study are the two primary challenges that MCD experienced during their pop-up period, and the ways in which the museum plans to address those challenges to produce a more tempered iteration of a pop-up program as it settles into its permanent home.
