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Museum Branding That Stands Out From The Crowd

There are some museum brands that are recognised all over the world. If you say MoMA or The Smithsonian, most people will already have an idea...

What does it take to run a meaningfully inclusive communications and marketing campaign?

Anna Cornelius is Head of Communications and Marketing for Wellcome Collection – London’s free museum and library dedicated to health and human experience. She shared...

How does the Natural History Museum use Illustration on Social Media to Inspire Action?

In a world where digital content is constantly competing for attention, the Natural History Museum has found an effective way to stand out: illustration. Far...

How Can Museums Expand Their Audiences in the Tech-Led Age

Rowena Fry, Advertising Consultant at Crafted, shares her advice for museums looking to grow their audiences in the digital age. By testing and trialling new...

8 Tips for Successful Museum Branding

Over the past twenty years, museums have increasingly embraced branding as they fight for attention in a competitive visitor economy. But having a strong museum...

SEO for Museums for Building Audiences Online

As we launch into 2024, many museum marketing managers are likely to be asking the question, “How can SEO help my museum in the decade...

How Museums Can Work With Social Media Influencers?

You may associate social media influencers with bikini-clad Instagram models posing with detox tea and encouraging you to use their promo code. How on earth...

How the Prado Museum Builds Global Connections Through Social Media

In an increasingly digital world, museums face the challenge of staying relevant, engaging audiences, and making their collections accessible to everyone. While many institutions have...

Quirky Museum Marketing Ideas to Get Noticed!

Museums around the world need to constantly come up with inventive new Museum marketing ideas. From putting a moustache on an aeroplane to setting dinosaurs...

How a Museum Partnered with a Makeup Artist and Influencer to Highlight Its Collections

At the National Museum of Scotland, a unique collaboration with a talented makeup artist and influencer has brought the museum’s natural sciences collections to life...

How can a Museum Harness SMS Marketing to Boost Engagement and Revenue?

In the ever-evolving world of museum marketing, exploring innovative channels to reach audiences is critical. For the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, implementing an SMS...

Finding your Museum’s TikTok Niche

TikTok is one of the fastest growing social media platforms and in 2021 had more online traffic than Google.  As its growth and engagement numbers...

How can Museums use their collection to connect to audiences?

Storytelling is a great way to get people, both young and old, to connect with museum collections. That is certainly what the content team at...

Rebranding the Amsterdam Museum

At the Museum Marketing Summit 2022, Maurice Seleky, Head of Communications and Marketing and member of the management team at the Amsterdam Museum, delivered an...

Local Marketing for your Museum

With social media adoption at an all-time high, the lure of digital marketing is hard to resist. The international reach, affordable ad options and easy...

Has digital widened participation by reaching new retail audiences?

By November 2020 internet sales accounted for 36% of retail in the UK, compared to 19.1% in February 2020. While internet sales, predictably, peaked during national...

Museum Audiences: How do you find yours?

One of the very first steps in developing a successful marketing strategy is identifying your target audience. Who can benefit from your collections? Who is...

How to use TikTok to grow your museum’s audience

TikTok is more than just an app that is centred on short-form videos. Since bursting onto the social media scene in September 2016, it’s become...

Creative Museum Marketing Ideas

This article contains shining examples of cultural organisations who hit the nail on the head with engaging campaigns that proved extremely memorable to the public. ...

How to Start a Podcast for Your Museum

For museum professionals working to connect their institutions with new and existing audiences, there are an ever increasing list of channels available and it can...

How are audience segmentation models adapting for the post-lockdown museum world? 

Do you know your Commuterland Culturebuffs from your Kaleidoscope Creativity? These are (as the segmentation savvy will know) two of the profiles from the Audience Agency’s...

Mary McGillivray, the TikToker Who Is Making Art History Accessible

Known to hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok, as _theiconoclass, Mary McGillivray is an art historian with a difference. Her lessons in art history...

How has the pandemic shaped how we speak to our audiences?

“How are you? I mean that, because you actually mean that at the minute. When we’re asking (I don’t know if you remember) when we’re...

6 of the weirdest (and most wonderful) museum marketing campaigns you’ll ever see

Art is known for pushing the boundaries in a number of different ways. But what happens when museums carry this mindset over into their marketing...