Reading the Ecology of the Field is the MME’s background research series — the work conducted before institutional decisions were made. Reports examine the conditions the museum is being built into: funding landscapes, activist posture, peer institution intelligence, civic ecology, membership economics, sector pressures. Not all research in this series is intended for external audiences. What is published here has field-wide relevance beyond MME’s specific situation — and in some cases forms the research foundation for future applied methodology in The Practice.
Novel Revenue Strategies as a Defense When the State Wants Cultural Institutions Quiet A research brief documenting how US institutions are responding to federal funding
Threat-landscape analysis of museum activism in the United States amid the 2025 federal assault on American cultural institutions, with structural recommendations for the MME. I.
Comparative analysis of how non-US museum institutions have taken principled public positions, with structural lessons for MME governance and posture. On the evening of June
