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thoughts on museums, content, design, and why they matter

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Real transformation ain’t easy

May 18, 2014 Ed Rodley

So, here I am in Seattle at the American Alliance of Museums conference, and I’m not finishing my presentation. Instead, I’m getting very excited for

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Making a museum from scratch: Part Five

June 15, 2012 Ed Rodley

For those of you just tuning in, I’ve been on a long extended thought experiment on what a traditional museum (one built around a collection

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Making a museum from scratch: Part Four

June 4, 2012 Ed Rodley

What does the mission of a radically transparent museum look like? In Part Three of this series, I proposed that our museum be radically transparent, that

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Making a museum from scratch: Part Two

May 21, 2012 Ed Rodley

In Part One, I posed a pretty big question, “How would you make a museum from scratch?” and dove right in to discussing audiences. It

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A letter from Gibraltar

June 12, 2011 Ed Rodley

We’ll be releasing a mobile app in the Fall to accompany a new permanent exhibition on the history of the Museum. As part of the

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