Toronto-based Terentia officially introduced itself to the world in February to assist museums and the wider cultural sector in their digital asset management, collections management...

AI: More than Human at World Museum, Liverpool is a large-scale exhibition that is giving the city and region’s visitors a chance to see its...

If you’ve been one of the multitudes of holidaymakers heading to the UK countryside this summer, you might have been faced with slow internet connections...

Meta Knol sits down with Deirdre Carasso to talk about how she transformed a filing city museum into a place cherished by its communities. How...

We’ve witnessed unimaginable human adaptability this year, with new ways of working, digital transformation and bold action. We’ve learnt that in challenging circumstances, we can...

Filmed at Philbrook Museum of Art in September 2020. Jeff Martin sits down with Scott Stulen, the Director of Philbrook Museum of Art to talk about how...

In 2006, Blake Mycoskie was in Argentina learning to play Polo, when a chance encounter changed his life. A conversation in a bar introduced him...

Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Bernadine Evaristo, and Jarvis Cocker are among the 160,000 signatories of the Public Campaign for the Arts petition in opposition to funding cuts...

Educating the population about health issues is an important part of keeping people healthy and well. Health education encompasses physical, mental, social and emotional health....

Stories are universal. We all read, watch and listen to them. We all tell them. Stories are part of what makes us human. In fact,...

MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course. A MOOC is a web-based learning resource that is available to students all over the world. This type...

A chunky lever arch file tucked in a packing crate, annotated sketches, and handwritten commentary are all pretty common examples of condition reports and the...

A Director at the Smithsonian Institution has confirmed that one of its museums will continue to collect artefacts from the violent attack on Capitol Hill...

The coronavirus pandemic may have caused a significant number of changes to the daily lives of people around the globe but it is also having...

The History Trust of South Australia cares for literally thousands of historically significant objects, from trams to trinkets, printing presses to pin cushions, ketches to...

Three months into a new digital role. Faced with a global pandemic. Responsible for shaping the direction of a museum’s communication with the outside world...

National Museums Liverpool has unveiled its new brand as it opens up its galleries and museums once more following enforced closures as a result of...

Art is known for pushing the boundaries in a number of different ways. But what happens when museums carry this mindset over into their marketing...

At the end of last month Manchester Museum closed its doors until October 2022 to put the finishing touches to its £13.5m Hello Future project,...

There are few (if any) cultural organisations in the world today that would argue with the need to make sustainability a top priority for the...

In the past few years, museums across the US, Europe, and Australia are trying to tackle the challenge of decolonizing their institutions. However, the very...

If 2020 was a year that put social justice issues in the spotlight, 2021 will be a year for some landmark changes to remedy these...

In today’s uncertain times, museums can act as an anchor in the storm. To those who aren’t as passionate about the power of museums as...

A large number of artefacts held in Western museums and libraries are known to have been appropriated over the ages through conquest and colonialism. The...

Partnerships are going to be more important than ever as we start to re-emerge from lockdown, Together for Museums harnessed the collective efforts of members,...

Museums are for the people. But they have not always been that way. Blake Gopnik’s recent opinion piece in the New York Times argues that...

Ah, fundraising. For small museums, it can be one of the most vexing issues. This is usually because simply keeping the museum afloat on a...

Ahead of her talk at the MuseumNext Digital Income Summit, Sarah Miguel gives a glimpse into how she and her team took action when the...

Membership schemes are a great way to get audiences invested in your museum’s mission and vision by offering them behind the scenes access and content...

As museums are beginning to open worldwide and visitors are slowly but surely flocking back to their hallowed halls it’s time to think about how...

Could 2021 be the year that Virtual Reality goes mainstream? That’s what many people are predicting following the launch of the Oculus Quest 2 VR...

Augmented reality is the process of using technology to superimpose images, text or sounds on top of what a person can already see. It uses...

Is Virtual Reality making the physical museum space obsolete? In an article from 2016, CEO of Six to Start, Adrian Hon, penned an article for...

Subscription services are hardly a new idea, nor are they entirely new to the museum sector. But in a post-Covid climate, a growing number of...

During 2020 the future looked bleak for art fairs. As we experienced across the cultural sector, mass cancellations, reduced visitor numbers, and ongoing economic uncertainty...

This summer we partnered with multimedia guide company MuseumMate to ask what’s next for Museum Audio Guides with a survey of our community. This essential...

It’s time to invent new ways of doing things. The Vegetable Museum in China’s Shouguang City, known as “Home of Vegetables”, blended live-streaming with e-commerce...

How do museums get cute, naughty and playful? Chinese museums have been tackling this question in hopes of appealing to the young audience. Museums in...

Jim Richardson: Welcome back to MuseumNext Disrupt. Today, we’ve got a fantastic presentation for you from De Nichols. She’s going to be talking about the...

Jérémie McGowan: Hello everyone, and welcome to this session of MuseumNext Disrupt, on rapid prototyping for museums. My name is Jérémie McGowan, and I’m a...

Jim Richardson: So welcome back to MuseumNext Disrupt. Today, I’m at the Horniman Museum and Gardens in London, and I’m here with the Executive Director,...