Museum Notes

Bigger than a prototype, louder than a focus group, and unfolding over months–and possibly years, planning out loud is long-term, delib...

  Now and then a blog posting unfolds in real life.      Several weeks ago, I wrote about Raising Citizens and highlighted th...

Sometimes a museum needs a new mission statement and sometime it doesn’t. Often, it’s hard to tell whether a mission is out-dated and in...

                                                                                                                          Photo by Barbara...

Recently I was asked to review a museum’s planning work as part of their preparation for a major organizational transformation. The bas...

  Last year I wrote about Customers, Learners, Citizens . I often write about children. In the broader culture, we are doing quite wel...

  A planner likes to be prepared whether it is digging into a project, going into a work session, or pulling it all together. While eve...