Featuring Elizabeth Merritt
American Alliance of Museums
Center for the Future of Museums

In the rapidly changing financial landscape, how can we create the sustainable nonprofit of the future? How is COVID-19 reshaping the museum sector? Elizabeth Merritt explores the financial challenges facing museums in a post-pandemic future, using the latest CFM forecasting report (TrendsWatch: The Future of Financial Sustainability) as jumping off point. Now is a perfect time to stop and consider who values museums, and why, and how that funding aligns with the change museums want to make in the world.

Elizabeth Merritt is Vice President of Strategic Foresight at the American Alliance of Museums, and Founding Director of AAM’s Center for the Future of Museums.

Co-organized by the IAS Research and Creative Collaborative Preparing Our Future Museums: Museum Studies in the 21st Century.