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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...
Ah, fundraising. For small museums, it can be one of the most vexing issues. This is usually because simply keeping the museum afloat on a...
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...
Raising funds through museum membership programs is a brilliant way to get your audiences genuinely excited about what your museum is all about. Offering sneak...
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...
“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...
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...
Discover the Winning Approach to Fostering Meaningful Donor Relationships at San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum. Funders and donors play a vital role in sustaining museums,...
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...
How can you increase your Museums donations? Museums are profoundly generous organisations, giving access and knowledge to the public to inspire learning and create meaningful...
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,...
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,...
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...
Should your museum be using Patreon? In the past eight years the Patreon platform has racked up more than 200,000 creators supported by more than six million patrons...
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...
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...
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...
Ahead of her talk at the Museum Fundraising Summit, Sarah Miguel gives a glimpse into how she and her team took action when the effects...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Creative and commercial have gone hand in hand for many years from Yves-Saint-Laurent and his homage to artist Mondrian or Andy Warhol and his penchant...
Last week we shared some of the great digital content that museums are producing to keep them connected to their audiences during the COVID-19 crisis....
