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Toward a Deep Learning Museum

Toward a Deep Learning Museum

In my new book, Transforming Museum Management, I call an ideal museum a deep learning museum that is not afraid of transforming internally to respond to changing external pressures and needs. A deep learning museum is based on the ideas of a learning organization...

Utilizing Systems Intelligence to Trigger Museum-Wide Change

Utilizing Systems Intelligence to Trigger Museum-Wide Change

As I explain in my new book, Transforming Museum Management, there is a limitation to museum transformation when the internal structure and culture and the museum workers’ mental models are not changed and do not reflect the wider community they want to serve. Systems...

What Is Open Systems Theory in Museums?

What Is Open Systems Theory in Museums?

In my new book, Transforming Museum Management, I propose a theory of change based on open systems theory and Buddhist concept of mutual causality to transform museums to be more inclusive and relevant to their local communities. Open systems theory, originally...

Why Do Transformational Changes of Museums Matter?

Why Do Transformational Changes of Museums Matter?

My new book, Transforming Museum Management, scheduled to be released in July 2021, provides a theory of change for a traditional art museum (and other museums) to transform to be more relevant and inclusive. The book is based on a longitudinal ethnographic study over...