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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,...
Speaker: Kati Price, V&A
Digital Museum Summit
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...
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...
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...
The Dali Museum in Florida have unveiled an inventive artificial intelligence project that will give visitors the opportunity to learn more about Dali’s life and...
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...
With a mission to explore the collision of arts and science, Science Gallery Melbourne is attempting to crack an important problem with an unorthodox approach....
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...
Tim Powell shares a new R&D approach for a heritage organization, taking us behind some of Historic Royal Palaces most successful productions. In this presentation he...
It is clear that technology plays a huge part in the modern museum experience. Take for example Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute. They launched a range of...
Airbnb describes their Airbnb Experiences as ‘activities designed and led by inspiring locals. They go beyond regular tours or classes by immersing guests in each...
In this ever-changing world of digital, there’s always something new, and predictions of trends can seem out-of-date before they are even published. But Facebook Live...
This fast paced and entertaining keynote presentation about the challenges of building digital products in museums was presented by Shannon Darrough at MuseumNext Tech 2018 in Amsterdam....
Jason Scott is an American archivist, historian of technology, and filmmaker. He is the creator, owner and maintainer of textfiles.com, a web site which archives...
Globally, it is estimated that approximately 1.3 billion people live with some form of distance or near vision impairment. Could Virtual Reality offer these people a...
Find more examples in this article on How museums are using virtual reality. – Virtual reality has been going through yet another cyclical revival driven...
Mar Dixon, Independent Consultant Museum Social Media is becoming less social even though more people are using social media platforms than ever… so what’s happening?...
In December 2016 the Science Museum Group launched Digital Lab to do experiments in emerging museum technology for their four museums and point towards the...
Peter Gorgels, Internet Manager at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will share everything you always wanted to know about Successful Museum Digital Projects at the Rijksmuseum like...
Aziz Isham Executive Producer, BRIC TV As algorithms and artificial intelligences are becoming more ubiquitous, they carry very real dangers to how we process information....
