About

For nearly thirty years, Jim Richardson has worked with museums on one persistent challenge: the sector is full of talented, committed professionals who are chronically under-resourced and largely cut off from each other. A digital project that took one museum six months to figure out had already been solved — better — by a museum on the other side of the world. The knowledge existed. It just wasn’t travelling.

In the early 2000s, Jim worked delivering digital strategy and consultancy to museums and cultural institutions across Europe and beyond. He co-authored the Digital Engagement Framework — a practical tool used by institutions from the Tate to the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC to shape their digital strategies.

In 2009, he started MuseumNext as a direct response to what he kept seeing in his consulting work: the professionals doing the most interesting work in museums rarely got to talk to each other. Events, articles, and online learning became the mechanism. Shared practice became the point.

Every MuseumNext event brings together practitioners who are doing genuinely interesting work and gives them space to share it properly. The result is a programme built not on theory, but on real experience from real institutions — including ones that look a lot like yours.

Whether you’re rethinking your digital strategy, building a new audience, improving visitor experience, or trying to make the case internally for change — someone, somewhere, has already done it. We’ll help you find them.

• Online events designed around peer learning and real case studies, not keynote lectures
• Accessible pricing so that professionals at small institutions have the same access as those at large ones
• A back catalogue of hundreds of talks — practical, searchable, and immediately applicable