[Opinion] The Museum in Crisis: A Symposium

What do Hollywood and Museums have in common? They are America’s greatest storytellers

The lastest data from the Annual Survey of Museum-Goers shows that trust in museums is rising from already high levels, even as trust in the government declines. That gives our sector a unique platform from which to bridge partisan divides and foster broad, thoughtful conversations about our nation’s future in the coming year. Today on the blog, Karissa Raskin, CEO of Listen First Project, shares an opportunity for museums to partner with Listen…

How to Do Things with Museums

Amid political polarisation, financial squeezes and the advance of AI, what might be holding museums back is museums themselves. Can institutions turn away from habits of accumulation and self-preservation towards more dynamic experience and more ambitious social missions? At the recent annual conference of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art), the crisis of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) was …