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Helen Maher and Xuxa Kidd told the Museums & Social Media Summit how a muddy knitted cap pulled from the Thames became their most successful...
Plenty of museums are experimenting with Artificial Intelligence (AI), but far fewer have progressed past the pilot stage to deliver something visitors actually use. Qatar Museums...
Most conference talks about digital strategy focus on the answer. The ecosystem is in place, the team is aligned, the numbers look good. At a...
There is often a wide gulf between culture lovers and sports enthusiasts. In Antwerp, a hyperdiverse city where martial arts of every kind are widely...
Zoe Goldman never planned to become a podcast producer. Her background is in art history, not journalism or audio production, and she is the first...
When Argentina’s Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes opened its doors to an algorithm, a beer brand and a question nobody could quite answer, the result...
When most institutions talk about bringing AI into education, the instinct is to hand students the tools and watch what they make. The Victoria and...
The Van Gogh Museum built an AI feature that matched people to a painting and told them a personal story about why they belonged together....
Inside the London Transport Museum’s AI Digital Poster project — a practical case study in using conversational AI to make museum collections speak, in 60...
Most museum staff don’t need to be convinced that AI is changing things. What they need is somewhere safe to figure out what that actually...
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West sits in Cody, Wyoming — a small city in the high desert, miles from any major population centre,...
Most museums measure their relationship with schools in hours. A visit, a tour, a workshop — then the bus pulls away. The Taubman Museum of...
What if the most effective way to get students engaging with history wasn’t a lesson, a worksheet, or even a museum visit — but lunch?...
How the Great North Museum: Hancock and Beacon Films are reshaping what museum interpretation can look like — and who gets to make it. What...
What if the goal wasn’t to reduce a museum’s impact, but to actively improve the conditions for life? At the Irish Museum of Modern Art,...
Through a transdisciplinary internal team called GU-Zero, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has turned environmental action from a specialist function into a shared institutional practice —...
A partnership between Ask Mona, the Palace of Versailles, and OpenAI has turned a walk through one of the world’s most visited gardens into a...
What if a museum’s most powerful act wasn’t bringing people through its doors, but sending its artworks out into the world instead? At the Museum...
By combining a revived community programme with time-based art and a carefully designed welcome, the Reykjavík Art Museum found a way to reach the teenagers...
A multi-platform video strategy built around artist Elizabeth Catlett shows how documentary storytelling, time-lapse filmmaking, and digital installation can turn an exhibition into a living,...
What happens when a national museum stops asking “how do we make our collection available online?” and starts asking “what do teachers actually need?” The...
What does meaningful community engagement look like when you strip away the grand budgets and the elaborate programming? For Portsmouth Museum & Art Gallery, it...
