Do you have a question about your career, relationships, money, health, or spirituality? Want to solve a business problem or a social issue?
Ask a piece of art!
Museum Sage® is a guided experience that offers you insights into your questions through a work of art.
This whole brain activity will help you see new possibilities and deeply connect with the people in your group, a piece of art — and your inner sage.* Try the Museum Sage experience experience and discover how much art has to say about you.
Download the free app at the Apple or Android store, or download the free How to Play PDF. Ask one or more friends to join you at an art museum, then get ready for some soulful fun.
“I’m always on the hunt for examples of people “hacking” museum content in interesting ways. Museum Sage basically turns the museum into a giant Tarot deck.”
– Elizabeth Merritt, VP Strategic Foresight & Founding Director, Center for the Future of Museums (American Alliance of Museums)
Edgar Degas, Woman in a Bathtub, 1889, bronze,
Minneapolis Institute of Art
“How can I be more relaxed in specific situations? That was my Museum Sage question. Degas’ sculpture of a woman in a tub reminded me to be more aware of my body and connect to my senses. There’s a carefree innocence about the bather that maybe I’m being invited to return to.” - Avivah
"Am I afraid to face the grief of having lost everything, including a business, in the 2010 Nashville flood?" Todd's question was answered in an online Museum Sage session by a 19th c. French painting that Todd thought looked dismal and heavy. With the help of Guide Laurie and Todd's friend Angela, Todd decided to take stock of his positive-message T-shirt inventory and then decide if he had the time and energy to recommit to it in addition to his music business. (Jean Charles Cazin, Landscape, 1895, Oil on canvas, 13” × 16”, Art Institute Chicago)
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A Houseful of Boxes, a Defeated Ship, and Two Life-Changing Insights
by LAURIE PHILLIPS
"...(Paolo) said, “I see a large mansion in the process of being packed up. There are workers filling crates, two people conversing, and an overseer directing the process.” Next to this painting, he noticed, was another one... of similar workers carrying furnishings to a small cabin near a river. . .When he asked, 'How should I approach the process of selling my home of twenty-eight years and moving to a new home?' I, and the other three people in the group. . ." READ MORE
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An Interview with Laurie Phillips
by Katherine Olivetti
. . . KO: In my own personal experience of doing Museum Sage, but also in guiding other people, the intuitive, random, synchronistic process of what you land in front of is mysterious. It’s part of that mysterious process of, for example, what you spoke about earlier of the rounded sculpture. That’s what you landed in front of at that particular time with that particular question.
LP: Yes. Any work of art or any object can work, though. . . READ MORE
Download the free app at the Apple or Android store, or download the free How to Play PDF. Ask one or more friends or family members to join you at an art museum, then get ready for some profound fun.
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A new book by Laurie Phillips and Jon Spayde, “Museum Sage: Solve Your Problems, Transform Your Life, and Learn about Art One Piece at a Time.”
An oracle card deck with art images from major museums on one side and the Insight Questions on the other side so you can play at home or while you’re visiting a friend in the hospital.
An education card deck for K-12 teachers to use with their students to stretch the impact of a school museum tour.
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