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How are audience segmentation models adapting for the post-lockdown museum world? 

Do you know your Commuterland Culturebuffs from your Kaleidoscope Creativity? These are (as the segmentation savvy will know) two of the profiles from the Audience Agency’s...

Digital

Digitally deprived communities are a key audience for museums to reach

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...

Ideas

The people behind museums: Ngaire Blankenberg, Director, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art

My strategy here, my vision for a more global and distributed museum, is that we provide experiences for people all over the world Ngaire Blankenberg...

Sustainability

Museum of Tomorrow’s immersive exhibition highlights current challenges to world’s largest biome

Visitors to the Museum of Tomorrow in Brazil can experience the largest tropical biome in the world with the Rio de Janeiro museum’s latest temporary...

Sustainability

Royal Ontario Museum’s Curator of Climate Change launches global project exploring greenhouse emissions

Dr Soren Brothers, Curator of Climate Change at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is leading a project that brings together 100 collaborators, representing every continent except...

Impact

The Lampedusa Cross, currently touring English museums, is a symbol of refugees’ plight

It is a simple construction, made from the remnants of a boat carrying refugees wrecked near the Italian island of Lampedusa, close to the coast...

Health & Well-Being

Museum trust gives staff extra holiday in January to bolster health and wellbeing

York Museums Trust will close to the public and pause all activities behind the scenes for one week in early January 2022 in support of the health and wellbeing...

Health & Well-Being

Mansfield Museum unveils ‘arts on prescription’ project to help victims of domestic abuse

At a time when domestic violence incidents have soared across the world with women becoming more vulnerable as a result of COVID-19 lockdowns, Mansfield Museum...

Impact

New museum opened along Korean Demilitarised Zone is a beacon for peace and unification

The odds of peaceful dialogue between North and South Korea were seemingly shattered last year when Pyongyang blew up a joint liaison office in its...

Impact

Multaka-Oxford refugee project at Oxford University Museums gets five-year extension

A £1m donation from Alwaleed Philanthropies will allow the innovative Multaka-Oxford project at Oxford University’s History of Science Museum and Pitt Rivers Museum to run...

Digital

Reimagining Collections: Building digital ecosystems for the modern museum

What does the future of digital collections look like? Terentia recently hosted a panel discussion as part of the MuseumNext Digital Collections Summit to discover...

Digital

Active Image: providing digital and physical art solutions to DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum

The DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum in Frankfurt – is a leading, forward-thinking, international heritage organization, which links the history, materiality, and meaning of...

Digital

Smartify launches new museum marketplace 

Smartify’s Head of eCommerce Emma Roberts reveals how the new arts marketplace provides an exciting channel for museum stores. Emma knows the challenges facing museum...

Sustainability

The Natural History Museum sets targets of net zero emissions by 2035

The museum’s Sustainable by Nature plan sets a carbon reduction target, which aligns with the scale of reductions required to keep global warming below a 1.5°C rise from pre-industrial...

Opinion

What museum objects and Sesame Street have in common

On 6 November, Big Bird, a beloved character on Sesame Street received the COVID-19 vaccine, as announced on the Muppet’s Twitter account. This may seem...

Health & Well-Being

How attractions are using trails to take their work into the open air

COVID-19 has changed the way that we use our outside spaces. Through the course of the pandemic, getting outside has been an opportunity for exercise,...

Opinion

The Lesser of Two Evils: The Ethical Conundrum of Deaccessioning

It was a case of the lesser of two evils, but a year on its worth looking back at the case of Baltimore Museum of...

Sustainability

The Human Impact On The Amazon: Creating A Museum Exhibition For Cop26

For Those Who Are to Come is an exhibition to be presented at COP26 that will show the human side of the Amazon and also...

Digital

The future of museum collections is cloud

Adrian Cooper is the Chief Product Officer for Terentia, a digital asset management, collections management, and storytelling platform for museums and cultural institutions that uses...

Engagement

Inspiring confidence and championing design and creativity in the V&A’s youngsters: A Q&A with Dr Helen Charman

With an impressive background in museums and education, Dr Helen Charman, Director of Learning and National Programmes at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in...

Impact

Secret Museum to tell ‘true’ impact on homelessness during pandemic

Homelessness in the UK is on the rise year-on-year but in March 2020 as the World Health Organisation announced COVID-19 as a pandemic it seemed...

Digital

Smartify at the Van Abbemuseum: creating a multi-layered visit

For its Delinking and Relinking exhibition the Van Abbemuseum staff asked the question: how can we create a layered museum visit in which we give...

Digital

Active Image: providing a marketplace and community for digital imagery

Founded in 2018 by Henning Lohner, Active Image is a Berlin-based start-up with the mission to accelerate the transformation of the visual art experience by...