Blog Posts

Museum Closings

Why museums close and what we can learn from it. This is a topic most people in the museum world do not want to discuss, which is exactly why I write about it.

"Top 5 Reasons Why Museums Close" is based on a conversation between Susana Bautista and me, originally published on the American Association for State and Local History website. We identified the patterns that keep repeating.

"Crowdsourcing a Database of Permanent Museum Closings" was originally published on the American Alliance of Museums website. I wanted to build a real dataset instead of relying on anecdotes.

More research on museum closings coming. The data tells a story that the industry needs to hear.