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10 Stand-Out Partnerships between Museums and Brands

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...

How Can Museums Make Money Online

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....

Tate Defends £39,500 ‘Head of Coffee’ Role

One of London’s most prestigious art galleries has courted controversy in the art world following its decision to advertise a job on its website that...

German Museum Experiments With Novel Approach to Charging Its Visitors

In Bremen, the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, which was founded in 1991, decided to take a new approach to the way it would charge...

Staff Walkout at the Science Museum

Employees at the Science Museum in London and other sites across the rest of the UK took part in a 24-hour strike in August in...

Calls for fair pay for museum workers grow louder

What’s the UK’s most popular visitor attraction? Many visitors believe it must be Buckingham Palace, or the Tower of London. If not one of these,...

Navigating Fundraising’s Moral Maze with a Robust Ethical Policy

These are testing times for capital ‘C’ Culture. As we move towards a more connected, more inclusive society, our cultural institutions are subject to increasing...

What does great art smell like? Louvre commission 8 fragrances based on their most famous artworks

The Louvre has commissioned the top perfumers in France to create scents inspired by some of the most famous artworks in their collection. The eight...

What does the the future of Museum fundraising look like?

There was a time when museum fundraising was as simple as asking your visitors to contribute to your fundraising efforts with the spare cash in...

Film: Should Museums Charge for Admission?

Silvia Filippini Fantoni from Indianapolis Museum of Art spoke at MuseumNext Dublin in April 2016 about the challenges of introducing a museum admission charges at...

Film: A new investment paradigm for art & culture

Deborah Cullinan, CEO, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts YBCA is a pioneering institution that is transforming the role cultural centers can play as citizen...

Film: How Can a Museum Use Kickstarter to Crowdfund?

In 2016 the Science Museum London crowdfunded £51,000 to recreate Eric, the UK’s first robot. How can a museum use Kickstarter to fund the things...

Film: How Museums can make money without selling out

How can museums make money? Jim Broughton from the Natural History Museum London talks about how his museum has identified new areas for expanding their revenue-generating...

How to be an inclusive Museum in times of financial crisis

Laura Crossley spoke at MuseumNext Indianapolis about embedding community engagement work with non-traditional groups in their core practice even in leaner financial times. Laura: Hello, thank you so...

Film: Digital Fundraising for Museums

In his own words, Steve Bridger helps some of the UK’s biggest charities to unlearn stuff and trust more of their own people to build...

Film: Driving Participation and Donations in Museums

Rich Mintz is the Vice-President of Strategy at Blue State Digital, an innovative American company focusing on online fundraising, advocacy, social networking, and constituency development...