Digital

A British charity devoted to education and improving mental health has launched an augmented reality (AR) app that it says will highlight the historic roles...

Working from home during the lockdown put me in a small room, which for much of the time sounded like a battleground. Gunfire would reverberate...

In what is thought to be a first for the museum sector, Monterey Bay Aquarium has used a popular video game to present a live...

In her latest article for MuseumNext, Catherine Devine discusses the importance of accessibility in museums and why there’s still much to do in order to...

The Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio has teamed up with Potion Design to create a system whereby ‘virtual exhibitions’ can be created at will...

The tech giant Amazon has recently launched a new service which allows people to access experts in their field and to enjoy virtual touring experiences....

There can be little doubt that all arts organisations and museums can harness the power of social media to their advantage but TikTok, in particular,...

Going to museums and art galleries has not been easy in 2020. Although many museums have been open to the public over the course of...

Recently, the subject that people want to speak with me about is how museums are making money online.  “What’s working?” and “Who’s doing it well?”...

It’s almost impossible, 400 years later, to imagine the scene in September 1620, when groups of English Puritans took their last look at the land...

The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has announced that it will stage a major virtual reality (VR) event in the museum to support of...

“The future of museums doesn’t have to be a choice between the physical and the digital. It’s ok to have a foot in both camps”...

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...

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...

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...