A Must-Read Report on Museum Trends

TrendsWatch is a new annual report that helps museums paint a picture of the future. The inaugural issue of TrendsWatch — TrendsWatch 2012: Museums and the Pulse of the Future — highlights seven trends that Center for the Future of Museum’s staff and advisors believe are highly significant to museums and their communities, based on scanning and analysis over the past year. For each trend, the report provides a summary, examples of how the trend is playing out in the world, comments on the trend’s significance to society and to museums, dozens of links to relevant news and research and suggestions for ways that museums might respond.