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How can a Museum build strategic partnerships with donors?

Funders and donors are the lifeblood of most museums. But what if we looked at donations and funding as a two-way relationship rather than a...

How Your Museum Gift Shop Can Draw in New Audiences

“Exit through the gift shop” is a phrase that needs to be re-evaluated. Museum gift shops can and should be more than just racks of...

Unravelling the potential of digital fundraising for museums

As funding for museums seems to be shrinking and becoming increasingly competitive year over year, fundraising has become vital for our institutions. The power is...

Museum Fundraising with Virtual Events

One silver lining to the Covid-19 pandemic and numerous lockdowns has been emergence and popularization of virtual events. Beginning in March 2020, organisations across the...

Plugging into Campaigns to Boost Museum Donations

Museums are profoundly generous organisations, giving access and knowledge to the public to inspire learning and create meaningful experiences. Behind this generous nature are real,...

How Are Museums Making Money Online?

With so many museums operating with reduced visitor numbers in 2020 and 2021, generating income in new ways has never been more important. Of course,...

Fundraising with Membership Schemes

Membership schemes are a great way to get audiences invested in your museum’s mission and vision by offering them behind the scenes access and content...

5 Strategies you need to know to keep your exhibit on budget

Museum exhibits can be pricey. Whether it’s a permanent installation or a travelling exhibition, myriad influences can affect the cost. Image acquisition, AV hardware, shipping,...

“Tap” into your Digital Fundraising Goals with Contactless Donations

As museums are beginning to open worldwide and visitors are slowly but surely flocking back to their hallowed halls it’s time to think about how...

How can museums harness the power of Patreon?

In the past eight years the Patreon platform has racked up more than 200,000 creators supported by more than six million patrons with creators earning more than $2billion....

How museums can use image licensing to enrich engagement with digital audiences

A vast number of museums are using image licensing to generate additional income, and as MuseumNext reported earlier in 2021, many museums have reconsidered their...

In conversation with: Will Cary, Chief of Business Strategy and Analytics, Barnes Foundation

As the man who oversees all earned revenue functions at the Barnes Foundation, Will Cary is perhaps better placed than most to speak on the...

In conversation with: Ian Ellard, Head of the V&A Academy

What do you do when learners are suddenly locked in their homes and unable to get to the art history courses, creative skills workshops, design...

The Story Behind the People’s History Museum Crowdfunder

Ahead of her talk at the MuseumNext Digital Income Summit, Sarah Miguel gives a glimpse into how she and her team took action when the...

Retail Therapy: Using Museum Shops for Digital Fundraising

I’m not sure about you, but I’ve always had a massive soft spot for museum gift shops. The walls of collectible postcards, quirky homewares, unique...

Get “Social” with Digital Fundraising

Social media offers museums the opportunity to ping fundraising appeals directly into the feeds of followers in an instant. Viewing museum appeals next to pictures...

Online Fundraising Platforms for Museums

Let’s be real. The prospect of raising funds for your museum digitally can be a little daunting. Between striking the right tone with messaging, creating...

Museum Digital Fundraising and Email Marketing

Email marketing has become a staple within the museums communications world. It’s an effective way to regularly ping updates and information straight into follower’s inboxes...

Brand licensing opportunities and museums – mercenary or an inevitability?

The great museum pivot has been a hot topic in recent months. As institutions around the globe have fought to react to lockdowns, closures and...

Digital Fundraising Ideas to Inspire Museums 

With people’s movements limited because of the covid pandemic, fundraisers have had to think creatively and pivot to digital. In this article, we look at...

Money making Ideas for Museums

Recently, the subject that people want to speak with me about is how museums are making money online.  “What’s working?” and “Who’s doing it well?”...

How to sell museum merchandise creatively?

It’s time to invent new ways of doing things. The Vegetable Museum in China’s Shouguang City, known as “Home of Vegetables”, blended live-streaming with e-commerce...

How Museums Can Win at E-Commerce and Online Donations

Sure, having a snazzy museum website is great for brand awareness, impressing users, making information about visiting and programmes easy to find, but let’s get...

Get Donations For Your Museum With Fundraising Website Plugins

Is your museum looking to get donations online? Are you looking for a WordPress donation plugin? With the current crisis hitting museum finances, institutions are...