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A major retrospective show at Beijing’s Forbidden City opened in December as a part of the complex’s 600th-anniversary commemorations. The exhibition, which is known as...
Ahead of his Digital Summit talk on Tuesday 23rd February, Adam Clarke gives a glimpse into the content of his session – “The story is...
The Norton Museum of Art, which is located in West Palm Beach in Florida, has said it will allow visitors greater accessibility to its collection...
It may have felt like the world came to a grinding halt for large parts of 2020. But against the backdrop of COVID-19, creativity still...
Augmented reality (AR) technologies have been used in museum contexts before but now the approach has been utilised by one of the world’s biggest social...
Rapid response and celebrating the mundane. Creative solutions have been the order of the day for the arts and culture sector through 2020 COVID-19 has...
The Akron Art Museum in Ohio, USA, has announced that it intends to bring interactivity and a unique art experience to the homes of the...
The Communities Producer at the Victoria and Albert Museum in Dundee has said that the museum will is now using a range of technologies to...
2021 is just around the corner and after a year which saw digital take centre stage in the museum world, what can we expect in...
It’s Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG), but not quite as you know it! You can now curate your own exhibitions in a virtual BMAG...
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...
