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Artificial intelligence, or “AI,” is a powerful tool being used all around us — but it’s not exactly new. Although it was first fully developed...
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...
Next week Ask a Curator day will take place across social media platforms, with more than 1000 museums, historic houses, galleries, libraries, aquariums and zoos...
A citizen scientist programme in Australia has seen a huge upturn in volunteering during the country’s pandemic lockdown period. Although the institution behind the scheme,...
Museum exhibitions are all about the “Wow!”, “What?” and “Why?” as they showcase beauty and wonder, spark curiosity, and share some of the important lessons...
One of the challenges currently facing Museums is how to monetise their online activities, so many working on the digital side of our cultural institutions...
In the UK this week, the Culture Minister Oliver Dowden reportedly told museum directors to be more commercially minded, with one suggestion being that they...
Ask a Curator Day started in 2010 in an effort to harness Twitter’s networking power to drum up some direct engagement with curators across the...
What does a museum mean to a city? Who feels represented, included or inspired by these civic institutions? These are big questions, with no easy...
A Canadian museum has decided to introduce chatbot technology to help it in light of the global pandemic crisis. The Ontario Regiment RCAC Museum, a...
As a Business Strategy Leader for Libraries and Museums in Microsoft’s Worldwide Education team, Catherine Devine spends much of her time considering how digital transformations...
This article is a shortened version of a webinar that we gave at Ecsite this year. You can rewatch the full length webinar here or right...
For years, I had a deep skepticism of Augmented Reality (AR). While I could see the revolutionary potential of AR in the distant future, when...
Thanks to live-streaming, museums are turning the crisis into an opportunity to reach new audience. In February, eight Chinese museums joined a 12-hour live-streaming relay...
Above: Stadel Museum in Frankfurt, one of the European museums that has reopened A month after the rest of Europe, the first museums in the...
“We are a world class museum and we want a website / app / interactive to match”. Almost every briefing I receive starts with the...
3D printing seems to have taken the world by storm in the last few years. This shows no sign of slowing as the technology continues...
As museums slowly start to reopen following their closure because of the Covid-19 pandemic, some things look very different. Face masks, plexiglass screens, timed entry...
Since the COVID pandemic began earlier this year, museums have been faced with major challenges: the vast majority have closed their doors, events have been...
Over the past two decades, technology has cemented itself as one of the most important aspects of modern society. From where we stand today it’s...
A website offers the chance to bring the essence of a museum to a virtual platform, but what can be done to ensure that nothing...
With holiday and leisure plans on hold for the foreseeable future, it’s little wonder that Google saw a 100% spike in searches for virtual cultural experiences in the month...
If the purpose of museums is to build a bridge between the past and present, then VR is surely one of the most innovative construction...
There is still much to be realised about the potential of digital arts and the application of digital tools to share cultural content. For some,...
During the lockdown, more and more museums around the world are offering digital tours online: they could be virtual tours, live guided tours or even...
