Leadership

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...

It’s been six years since Nina Simon, the Executive Director of Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) released The Participatory Museum. That book went...

Director of Hirshhorn Museum & Gardens, Dr Melissa Chiu shares her thoughts on the challenges facing museums in the 21st century. Museums have undergone enormous...

Beat Hächler is the Director of the Swiss Alpine Museum in Bern, a museum dedicated to the nature and culture of the Swiss Alps. He joined us for MuseumNext...

In 2014, two months into his new mandate, Alex Benay, President and CEO, Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation, was forced to close his anchor...

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...

David Fleming, Museum Director at National Museums Liverpool spoke with Jasper Visser about his vision for museums that change lives at MuseumNext Dublin in April 2016....

This presentation on how staff engagement creates museum success was presented at MuseumNext Dublin on 19th April 2016, by Eleanor Appleby from Jane Wentworth Associates. Eleanor: Hello,...

This presentation on Institutionalising Inclusivity in Museums was given at MuseumNext Indianapolis on 26th Septemeber 2015, by Monica O. Montgomery, Director, Latimer Historic House Museum and Masum Momaya, Curator,...

Gail Dexter Lord, Co-President of Lord Cultural Resources spoke at MuseumNext Geneva in April 2015 about Soft Power and what this concept means for the 21st century...

Museum budgets are coming under increasing pressure, and this are likely to get worse before they get better. European governments are talking up the concept...