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In June 2026, the EU’s three main institutions put culture’s benefits for health and wellbeing into a shared political commitment for the first time. For...
Teenagers are swapping phone numbers at the end of a museum workshop. A young person who barely left home for three years is pitching their...
A simple artwork-tagging tool has become the starting point for friendships, wellbeing and a renewed pride in place. At the Digital Collections Summit, Art UK’s...
Try to imagine studying the Renaissance without its art. Now imagine a historian in 2126 trying to understand our era without hashtags, viral videos or...
Doctors are prescribing gallery visits. Care homes are receiving museum collections. People living with dementia are reliving Eurovision classics with a mobile museum. Here is...
From exhibitions that turn industrial heritage into hope to galleries built for climate grief, museums are finding their voice on the defining issue of our...
For a growing share of your potential audience, the first encounter with your museum is a vertical video they did not go looking for. It...
Helen Maher and Xuxa Kidd told the Museums & Social Media Summit how a muddy knitted cap pulled from the Thames became their most successful...
Plenty of museums are experimenting with Artificial Intelligence (AI), but far fewer have progressed past the pilot stage to deliver something visitors actually use. Qatar Museums...
Most conference talks about digital strategy focus on the answer. The ecosystem is in place, the team is aligned, the numbers look good. At a...
There is often a wide gulf between culture lovers and sports enthusiasts. In Antwerp, a hyperdiverse city where martial arts of every kind are widely...
A muddy cap, a Van Gogh, a painting on day release. Here is how six museums turned things in cases into things people care about....
Zoe Goldman never planned to become a podcast producer. Her background is in art history, not journalism or audio production, and she is the first...
For students pursuing a career in museums, building a strong foundation of knowledge is crucial. From curation and exhibition design to education, activism, and ethics,...
When Argentina’s Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes opened its doors to an algorithm, a beer brand and a question nobody could quite answer, the team...
When most institutions talk about bringing AI into education, the instinct is to hand students the tools and watch what they make. The Victoria and...
The Van Gogh Museum built an AI feature that matched people to a painting and told them a personal story about why they belonged together....
Inside the London Transport Museum’s AI Digital Poster project — a case study whose team reports conversational support for 60 languages and delivery with equipment...
Most museum staff don’t need to be convinced that AI is changing things. What they need is somewhere safe to figure out what that actually...
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West sits in Cody, Wyoming — a small city in the high desert, miles from any major population centre,...
Most museums measure their relationship with schools in hours. A visit, a tour, a workshop — then the bus pulls away. The Taubman Museum of...
What if the most effective way to get students engaging with history wasn’t a lesson, a worksheet, or even a museum visit — but lunch?...
