Future of Museums: There Is Power in the Blending and Breaking of Barriers

Museum Planning
8 min readJun 3, 2022
Figure 1. Baran, P. (1964). On Distributed Communications. Memorandum RM-3420-PR. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memoranda/2006/RM3420.pdf (accessed June 2, 2022). Also see http://innovationprinciples.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/scalable-innovation-figures-for-section_14.html.

“Metcalfe’s law states that the value or utility of a network is proportional to the number of users of the network (utility = n × log(n)).” [i], [ii]

I just got off the phone with a friend who works in finance. I found our conversation stimulating, as there are many parallels between the for-profit and nonprofit worlds.

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Mark Walhimer is the managing partner of Museum Planning, LLC, and the author of Museums 101 (2015) and Designing Museum Experiences (2021).