Live social media as museum object
By Shane Breynard It has become commonplace to engage with museums online. Indeed social media and the web are now the main ways that museum…
Fair pay in Museums?
By Jim Richardson ‘Does your museum pay staff an amount that they can reasonably be expected to live on?’, that’s a question that I’ve been…
Announcing MuseumNext Australia 2018
MuseumNext is a global conference series on the future of museums. Since 2009, it has brought together museum leaders from around the world to ask ‘what’s…
Communicating the Social Impact of Museums
By Jim Richardson I would hope that anyone working in museums believes in the positive effect that they have. They change lives, enrich communities and makes our cities…
Why I’m looking forward to MuseumNext Europe
Amy Dale is a Curator at the Migration Museum, located in Adelaide, Australia. She attended her first MuseumNext in Edinburgh in 2011, when she was…
In Conversation with Shelley Bernstein
Shelley Bernstein is a renowned digital leader who tirelessly pushed the boundaries and challenged the traditional way of doing things with her groundbreaking work as…
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Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Digital Communications Strategy in China
Patricia Buffa, Head of Digital Communications, Fondation Louis Vuitton With over 2,000,000 Chinese tourists who visited France in 2015, China is France’s second tourist market…
Kickstarting Eric : Recreating the UK’s first Robot
Will Stanley, Senior Communications Officer, Science Museum In May 2016, the Science Museum launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to recreate Eric for the Robots…
Mahuki: Challenging expectations of the role of museums
Melissa Firth Chief Digital Officer Te Papa Tongarewa For almost two decades, Te Papa has challenged expectations of what a museum can be. This year…