MCN 2026

Many museums are already doing AI engagement work, including exhibits, programs, community conversations. But what's the full range of what's possible, and how do you know where your institution fits? This session introduces a typology of 13 roles museums can play in AI public engagement, organized across four domains: building AI awareness and knowledge, facilitating public input into AI development, strengthening AI-related infrastructure, and exploring AI's social impact and meaning. Developed by the Association of Science and Technology Centers through a cross-sector workshop process, the framework offers a shared language for a field that is moving fast and often in parallel. Come map where your work already lives, and where you might want to go next.