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Hannah Hethmon is an expert on Podcasting for Museums, and the author of Your Museum Needs A Podcast. In October she’ll be speaking at the...
Speaker: Kati Price, V&A
Digital Museum Summit
Ever since the pioneering mathematician and computer scientist, Alan Turing, posed the question of whether computers would be able to think in the future, people...
In museums today, there are all sorts of technologies that are able to merge the real-world experience of visitors with enhanced information from the virtual...
What if you would take a bunch of 400 year-old, illegible books about Rembrandt, place them in an exhibition space usually frequented by people over...
As I type this, I’m picturing you as a wild animal, perhaps a hungry leopard. I watch you prowl through the African savannah. You’re on...
ING, the Dutch banking group, has been involved with supporting artists for over 45 years. According to the team behind the ING Collection, it has...
Museums are typically thought of as destinations to house and display art, artefacts and collections of cultural interest. But in an age of shortened attention...
The National Gallery in London will break new ground in an upcoming exhibition devoted to one of the great works of the most famous artists...
Mobile phone networks have been capable of passing data communications from their earliest iterations. However, it was not until so-called 3G came into existence that...
This month, the use of Facebook’s popular Spark AR platform to create a virtual wing for Tate Britain spotlighted the role of augmented reality as...
In July, the US tech giant Apple announced that it had entered into a novel collaboration with the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New...
With well over a billion users, WeChat is an app that you may never have heard of. This is because by far the majority of...
Wouter van der Horst is the Digital Learning Educator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. I was fascinated by his lecture at MuseumNext London and followed...
If a museum is about anything, then it is about providing an engaging learning experience. Of course, in a traditional sense, learning is also about...
I would expect many of us who work in the industry remember the first time we visited a museum we have since grown to love,...
I regularly work with museums to improve their use of technology to open up their collections, attract more visitors and build better relationships and the...
Email marketing is still seen as one of the most effective ways to communicate with museum audiences. It’s hardly surprising, despite the rise of social...
TikTok (also known as Douyin in China) is an app for creating and sharing short music videos and short looping videos. The platform is one of...
How do you make a great museum podcast? Museum Confidential from Philbrook Museum of Art is one of our favorites. The podcast takes listeners behind the...
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...
One of Rembrandt’s most famous paintings has been brought to virtual life by The Mauritshuis and Nationale-Nederlanden at the historic Waag(Weigh House) in the heart of Amsterdam. The...
One of the biggest technological disruptions of the past decade has been the rise of social media. It’s estimated that in 2019 there are 3.2...
Whether you follow trends in technology, banking, or digital art, chances are you’ve heard of blockchain. This digital record-keeping technology is relatively new but has...
Snapchat is helping to mark Black History Month with a new Lens that lets users visit a new Augmented Reality art gallery dedicated to young black artists. Snapchatters can access the...
New mixed reality technologies such as HoloLens blend the physical world with the digital world. In this talk by Dan Ayob from Microsoft he talks about...
