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My strategy here, my vision for a more global and distributed museum, is that we provide experiences for people all over the world Ngaire Blankenberg...
The past year has definitely been an eventful one for ATS and its Managing Director, Spencer Clark. While the digital visitor experience company supported their...
In an innovative new move, the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust has recently appointed two experienced museum professionals to job-share the role of museum manager at...
Meta Knol sits down with Deirdre Carasso to talk about how she transformed a filing city museum into a place cherished by its communities. How...
We’ve witnessed unimaginable human adaptability this year, with new ways of working, digital transformation and bold action. We’ve learnt that in challenging circumstances, we can...
Filmed at Philbrook Museum of Art in September 2020. Jeff Martin sits down with Scott Stulen, the Director of Philbrook Museum of Art to talk about how...
In 2006, Blake Mycoskie was in Argentina learning to play Polo, when a chance encounter changed his life. A conversation in a bar introduced him...
In the town of Enterprise, Alabama stands an unusual monument, a statue of a woman holding a pedestal high above her head and in it...
As Museum professionals, we have an existential choice to make about who and what we want to be. In today’s climate of social activism, one...
Representation is a delicate subject and cultural institutions must work hard to ensure a range of voices are heard. Diversity is a very loaded word,...
Almost anyone who has been working in museums for any length of time will have stories about bad managers. They are nearly impossible to avoid...
Stress is an inescapable part of life. Nowhere is this more true than on the job and that goes for Museum Workers too. The pressure...
One of the biggest mistakes you can make as a museum leader is to micromanage your team. It makes your employees feel like you don’t...
Elaine Heumann Gurian is the best-selling author of Civilizing the Museum. she joined us in Melbourne for MuseumNext in 2016. In a world that is...
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...
Most museums have a hierarchical management structure, just like the majority of private enterprises, big publicly listed corporations and government departments. Hierarchies in museums one...
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...
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...
