Digital

This presentation was made by Paula Bray, DX Lab Leader, State Library New South Wales at MuseumNext Melbourne in February 2016. DX Lab, the first...

The Lost Palace is a new immersive heritage experience from Historic Royal Palaces. MuseumNext Founder Jim Richardson took the tour.  It’s dusk in central London,...

Neil Harbisson is a Catalan-raised, British-born contemporary artist and cyborg activist best known for having an antenna implanted in his skull and for being officially...

Open Stage at MuseumNext is a series of quick fire presentations on the Future of Museums. In this presentation filmed at MuseumNext New York in...

Monica O. Montgomery spoke at MuseumNext Dublin in April 2016 about how independent collectives of self directed museum workers are forming communities of practice. These...

Shelley Bernstein’s talk explores ASK Brooklyn Museum, a new initiative which empowers visitors to ask questions using their mobile devices as they explore the galleries...

This presentation on getting the local community to blog for a museum was presented by Lori Byrd-McDevitt from the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis at MuseumNext Indianapolis. In it...

Rob Gethen Smith, Lucie Paterson and Paul Vulpiani joined us at MuseumNext Geneva in April 2015 to share the story of their new website, which...

What is the main aim of a museum website? Browsing the internet, you quickly conclude that this is to promote the institution to potential visitors....

Which of our collections best lends themselves to impulse sharing online? Which of our collections are people most willing to talk about online? These two...

The Internet of Things is a compelling idea, with its promise of a seamless link between objects in the physical world and associated media in...

The following presentation was made at the Gulf Arts and Cultural Leaders Summit in Qatar in November 2011 by MuseumNext Founder Jim Richardson. Today I want to talk...

Mia Ridge is a cultural heritage technologist, and has worked internationally as an analyst, consultant and programmer. Mia spoke at the 2011 MuseumNext conference in Edinburgh about...

Nora Semel, Associate Director of External Affairs and Francesca Merlino, Marketing Manager of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum joined us for MuseumNext Edinburgh in 2011 to talk...

As the social media explosion rolls on, more and more talk centres around the possibilities – and realities – of interaction, collaboration and dialogue. Now...

When I was four years old my father brought an reel to reel tape recorder home with him, it had been discarded at the place...

Please note: Info on Ask a Curator 2020 can be found here On the same day that Tony Blair’s memoir, A Journey, was published to...

Even though it is still only a few short years since the introduction of multi-touch technology in the first iPhones, already we have become familiar...

Technology is often used by museums and galleries to create moments of interaction that encourage a deeper consideration of a collection or subject. At the...

Last year Twitter received 3.92 billion visitors on average each month, making it one of the most popular social media sites. The micro blogging service regularly...

The following is based on a presentation that I gave at Communicating the Museum in June 2009. The conference focused on Social Media and it...

The following are notes for a talk I gave in July 2008 at an event called Bits2Blogs. The talk focuses on innovative ways that museums...