THE MUSEUM OF IDEAS®
A place for ideas to mingle souls.
Think.
Think boldly.
Think differently.
Think deliberately.
Think quietly to yourself.
Think with someone else.
Think about something beautiful.
Think about something you’d like to change.
Think in colors.
Think in words.
Think without words (find the words later).
Think about our next chapter.
Think about how it might be different.
Think about how it might be better.
The people who find their way to The Museum are curious and gather around others who are ready to reimagine things. The space is about nourishing and promoting thought, growth of creativity and spirit, newness, and re-imagination.
The Museum of Ideas® is a registered LLC experimenting with a model to uplift and promote thinkers and ideas. All projects in progress represent input from a range of leaders, creators, inventors, thinkers, students, entrepreneurs, artists and other imaginative minds. All items for sale are products we feel will encourage the fine art of thought and creation.
If you are here, welcome. In the grand scheme of things, we're just getting started.
Our mission:
To celebrate the beauty and transformative power of human creators, thinkers, entrepreneurs and artists and their thoughts and sound ideas by encouraging and promoting their imagination, exploration and collaborative spirit, in bespoke projects and products that uplift, promote and encourage thinking.
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Ongoing Activations
- The Moon Gallery 49 interviews with thinkers about their ideas will be sent to the moon fall 2024; The Moon Gallery is a series of fifteen-minute interviews with the thinkers whose emerging ideas are the seeds and the sparks that will pivot our narratives for the future. Zoom-based for now, all thinkers respond to the same questions; an invitation to think about the art of an idea.
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200 Thinkers and Ideas this project will continue the momentum of the Moon Gallery contributing to a growing gallery of the ideas of our time.
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The Museum of Ideas Substack insights are indepth insights based on interviews with museum guests.
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The Museum of Ideas Store is a selection of goods with an aim to support and promote The Museum.
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Tools and Resources Informed by a developing stream of content —books, reports and other forms of wisdom will emerge as the project does.
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Services See Services page.
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What's your idea? Let's collaborate.
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History
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2020
The Museum of Ideas is born.
I launched The Museum of Ideas from my sunroom couch as a series of essays with an open mind about what it might become.
The first "Conversation on The Blue Couch" essay "What if There Can Be a Better Us in Space?" is published. The Conversations on the Blue Couch series explores strategic 'What if' possibilities with thinkers and everyday experts.
The Impermanence Project on Instagram begins and continues to evolve. Is there a message? I'll leave it to you to read between the lines. But you may as well visit.
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2022
The Museum's publication How Might Spirituality Shape the Metaverse? is quoted in the Psychology Today publication Let's Get Metaphysical.
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2023
As a volunteer founding member of QCollective I contribute to 10 Moral Questions: how to design tech and AI responsibly. The book is launched in Q1 2024 in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum Event. The book is not a product of The Museum but the effort is adjacent and supports The Museum's mission to promote ethical leadership. Listen to the Pondering AI Podcast for my take on the book.
I co-curate an exhibition that culminates in The___Object for a team I admire; House of Beautiful Business, at their annual festival in Sintra, Portugal.
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2024
The idea for The Museum of Ideas moon gallery of ideas is born in Davos, Switzerland. The Museum of Ideas launches a series of ideas interviews with innovative thinkers that will be included in LifeShip's moon capsule mission October 2024.
The Museum is registered as an LLC.
The 200 Thinkers and Ideas project is born.
Select services added (see services page.)
The Museum of Ideas Instagram stories begin.
The Dictionary of the Future - a lexicon for a (better) tomorrow begins.
The Museum of Ideas product pages added.
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2025
LifeShip Pyramid on the Moon launches and lands on the moon March 2, 2025 08:34 UTC. See: Beautiful News.
The Museum of Ideas + Vienna-based Poetry in Business work with students to activate an "Ideas Gallery" imaginative project. Stay tuned!
The Museum of Ideas starts a quarterly AI-focused product review.
The Museum of Ideas sponsors The Journal Project, a global collaboration and social experiment activation to promote human connection. Stay tuned! (Reminder: You can find your own journal at The Shop.)
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What's next?
As 'all good things take time,' I expect to continue to experiment with and to build The Museum.
I hope you are as curious as I am to see what it will become.
With convivial wishes. I'll meet you where the ideas are.
--Shannon
Shannon Mullen O'Keefe
Founder and Chief Curator, The Museum of Ideas
Get in touch with The Museum of Ideas
We are always looking for additional partners and sponsors to support the mission of The Museum. If you're interested or have any additional questions, please reach out to the email below.
shannonmullenokeefe@themuseumofideas.com