ABSTRACT
No seers are we, but, despite financial constraints of the 1990s, the societal and technological changes taking place in the world promise exciting and innovative museums of the future. Museums are heading for the twenty-first century with open minds as to how best they may serve their diverse communities, how information management will streamline their operations and communications, how they may take advantage of the inventive and imaginative techniques for enhancement of exhibitions, and how, most importantly, they may be resolute educational institutions. Without sacrificing their traditional roles of scholarship and conservation, museums may be in the forefront as masters of communications and as agents of change. Those who work in museums in the future will have a wonderland of opportunities. They will also have significant challenges to utilize the abundance of resources available to them. And they will need to concentrate additional energy on knowing and serving their communities. Museums will be forceful institutions with "thinking" and "caring" staff to move them forward. What a delight it will be to work in them!
