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Museum Notes: March 2015

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Saturday, March 28, 2015. Armed with confidence, an appetite to learn by doing, and a firm commitment to building internal capacity, these museums put together and field their own process. They draw on the strategic planning experience of board members who have participated in strategic planning in their organizations as well as staff who have been part of a previous process at this or another museum. Esources specific to museums and their circumstances are especially helpful. 8230; sets the museum&#8217...

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Museum Notes: January 2015

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Thursday, January 29, 2015. Creativity, Play, and Learning. Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought. Some of us might say there’s some relationship between creativity and play…maybe. Stretching a bit, some may say they appreciate play for its role in creativity. Fewer are likely to have considered the possibility that creativity and play are closely related. Mostly we tend to think of creativity and play as worlds apart. The Inner Circle by Jaime Filipe. Connecting previo...

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Museum Notes: Rewind: Essential Experiences – Where Museums Can Matter

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Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Rewind: Essential Experiences – Where Museums Can Matter. Museums can, however, be deliberate in delivering a set of essential experiences. Most museums have a handful of opportunities that would be a starting place for a set of essential experiences. Perhaps a favorite phrase or powerful image surfaces and is repeated. “Frequent and positive experiences with nature,” “a time and a place to be children”, or “coming together as a family”...A museum’s essential experiences em...

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Museum Notes: August 2015

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Friday, August 21, 2015. All I know is what I have words for. Have you ever been in a conversation with a colleague or in a workshop grappling with a word or an idea when, with a flit of the hand, someone says, “It’s just semantics.” There’s a pause, the conversation stumbles and tentatively recovers or perhaps ends. 8220;Well, it’s just all semantics.”. In fact, semantics is just that: the meaning of words and language in a particular context. Quality, relevance, sustainability. How can we explore the r...

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Museum Notes: Vision With A View to Impact

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Monday, February 6, 2012. Vision With A View to Impact. How will they be assured that what they plan to bring to the community is relevant and valued? How else can they choose among very attractive, and certainly, competing alternatives? How else will they know whether their use of resources has served them and their community well? How else will they be confident about their long-term organizational health? Museum–needs such a vision. In large numbers. Good vision statements, (even just examples) ar...

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Museum Notes: Visually Compelling & Perspective Changing

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Visually Compelling and Perspective Changing. The first time I saw a print of. Napoleon’s losses in his Russian campaign. Depicted by Charles Joseph Minard, I was stunned. Although written in French, I immediately grasped the horrific troop losses taken across the distance and time on the figurative map. Happily I later found this and more images in. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. An incidental encounter with 200 Countries, 200 years, Four Minutes. As visually com...

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Museum Notes: February 2015

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Sunday, February 22, 2015. A Couple of Ideas for the Taking. Chicago Public Library Oak Park Branch. I got an idea! 8221; I get a kick hearing someone, usually a child, say that. As a child, I loved the feeling of getting an idea. And I still do. Local Inventors and Innovators. Guest post on Museum Questions. Educator at the RISD Museum (Providence, RI) wondered what if. That made me wonder, what if…. This week on Museum Questions. Design Children’s Play Research. I was sorely disappointed when I wasn&#8...

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Museum Notes: Building Capacity to Have Capacity

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Monday, August 10, 2015. Building Capacity to Have Capacity. While having internal capacity is essential for a museum’s resilience, building that capacity deliberately is too often an afterthought. We launch strategic planning, initiate extensive community engagement projects, plan a major expansion, or amp up customer service. Before hand, do we explore whether staff, trustees, and volunteers have the capacity to do this well? This is regardless of a museum’s size or maturity. Capacity building is the.

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Museum Notes: April 2015

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Thursday, April 23, 2015. Between Planning and Chance. Attributed to Louis Pasteur. You plan and you plan and then you just have to acknowledge that some things will be left to chance. Is one I keep in mind especially when deeply involved in a planning project that is winding down and moving towards implementation. What comes after planning? Opening a museum, launching a strategic plan, activating a learning framework, or unveiling an exhibition. We may be poised for opportunities, but we never know unti...