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Today’s art museums and historic sites are more than places to preserve the art, artifacts and memories of the past. They are the new town...
FUTURE OF MUSEUM STORYTELLING CONFERENCE
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When you look at the museum sector as a whole, it is incredibly diverse. Nearly every aspect of human history, scientific research, creative arts and...
Jasper Visser sits down with Dr Tristram Hunt, Director of V&A at MuseumNext London in June 2019 to talk about the expansion of the V&A,...
What if….you chucked out all your plans for new exhibitions and started with the questions that your visitors ask you? And you go and find...
The process of translating an idea and opening your doors as a museum can be a challenging and foreboding process. To help give insight on...
In her 50th birthday speech, delivered in the backyard of her inner-Melbourne home, Katrina Sedgwick thanked a man forever associated with a pair of snug...
Founding Director of BIOTOPIA, Michael John Gorman was our opening keynote for MuseumNext Sydney in April 2019. We caught up with him on his impressive...
One of the wonderful things about running MuseumNext is that I get to know extraordinary people who I’d never normally get to meet. Scott Stulen...
This interview with Marian Goodell, Founding Board Member and CEO, Burning Man Project was filmed at MuseumNext Dublin in April 2015. Matthew Caines, Editor of Guardian’s Culture...
Adam Lerner will speak about the vulnerabilities associated with going outside conventional ways of doing things in an arts organization, discussing his own experience applying...
This presentation will define a new strategic thinking for Museums. Identifying what museums role should be in the Creative Industries and the purpose of innovation...
With Play Africa Gretchen Wilson-Prangley is building a new children’s museum in South Africa. Working on a shoestring budget, they have successfully created a model for...
Henry Mason Managing Director, TrendWatching In this keynote, Henry Mason shares the key consumer trends that are impacting the museum sector, but more than that,...
We’re excited to be joined at MuseumNext London 2018 by Gretchen Wilson-Prangley, the founder and CEO of Play Africa the first “children’s museum” in South Africa. We...
Konrad Ng, the Executive Director of Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design recently spoke at MuseumNext Australia. Konrad is doing some incredible...
Lāth Carlson Executive Director, Living Computers: Museum+Labs Museums can make truly structural changes in order to effect real progress in terms of inclusiveness. At Living...
Three years ago, when writing up my PhD at University College London, I met Sara Wajid, the founder of Museum Detox. And I took a...
Last month an email popped up in my inbox via an industry mailing list: ‘I am recruiting an intern to lead on building and populating...
Museums often hold diverse collections. Think of the Royal Ontario Museum whose holdings include dinosaurs, building columns, and moccasins in one collection. Accusations of privilege...
Working in a museum has never been so demanding, and increasingly what every museum job has in common is that there don’t seem to be...
In this talk, Kimberly Drew, who currently serves as The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Social Media Manager discusses her blog Black Contemporary Art, her work...
‘Does your museum pay staff an amount that they can reasonably be expected to live on?’, that’s a question that I’ve been asking museum professionals...
Te Papa is asking how can a museum work with entrepreneurs through their cultural accelerator Mahuki. This is a structured entrepreneurial program run where up...
The New York Times opinion page featured a piece called Why the Met Should Appoint a Female Director in response to the resignation of the...
Tony Butler is the Executive Director of Derby Museums Trust and the founder of the Happy Museum Project. MuseumNext’s Jim Richardson caught up with him to...
