This week I wandered into the Natural History Museum in Kyiv--it's a place I'd been by many times, but had never gotten around to en...

Last week I had the honor of being the plenary speaker at a conference, The Reform of Museum Management and Marketing , in Kyiv, Ukraine, sp...

Last week, I spent a great deal of time on the road, a not unusual occurence,  and in the early morning, I'm always happy to hear Garri...

Several weeks ago,  I spent an enjoyable few hours at the National Zoo in Washington, DC.  It had been a long time since I'd visited an...

On February 1 at 5:00 PM,  Sarah Crow and I closed the book on our effort to fund the Pickle Project on Kickstarter.   We were amazed, humbl...

The term focus group often seems scary or off-putting to some groups I work with--but really, it's just a term for listening to what vis...

In a post last fall, I wrote about whether local history museums are in danger of becoming dinosaurs.  It became my most read post, by a hu...