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In the past few years, museums across the US, Europe, and Australia are trying to tackle the challenge of decolonizing their institutions. However, the very...
Augmented reality is the process of using technology to superimpose images, text or sounds on top of what a person can already see. It uses...
[This article has been written by Fair Museum Jobs, a grassroots organisation that campaigns for fairer and more ethical recruitment and job practice in UK...
Among the many challenges that we’ve faced as a society in 2020, it is often the disruption to ordinary, everyday things that has made the...
Birmingham Museums Trust, one of the UK’s largest independent museum trusts, has appointed Sara Wajid and Zak Mensah as joint CEOs. The pair will formally...
Next week Ask a Curator day will take place across social media platforms, with more than 1000 museums, historic houses, galleries, libraries, aquariums and zoos...
A citizen scientist programme in Australia has seen a huge upturn in volunteering during the country’s pandemic lockdown period. Although the institution behind the scheme,...
Museum exhibitions are all about the “Wow!”, “What?” and “Why?” as they showcase beauty and wonder, spark curiosity, and share some of the important lessons...
One of the challenges currently facing Museums is how to monetise their online activities, so many working on the digital side of our cultural institutions...
In the UK this week, the Culture Minister Oliver Dowden reportedly told museum directors to be more commercially minded, with one suggestion being that they...
Ask a Curator Day started in 2010 in an effort to harness Twitter’s networking power to drum up some direct engagement with curators across the...
To commemorate Singapore’s 55th year of independence the National Gallery Singapore has launched a series of on-site and online initiatives for the public to mark...
What does a museum mean to a city? Who feels represented, included or inspired by these civic institutions? These are big questions, with no easy...
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...
What type of travelling exhibition models shall be sustainable in a post-COVID 19 scenario? We have come to think of the industry as being prevalently...
A Canadian museum has decided to introduce chatbot technology to help it in light of the global pandemic crisis. The Ontario Regiment RCAC Museum, a...
As a Business Strategy Leader for Libraries and Museums in Microsoft’s Worldwide Education team, Catherine Devine spends much of her time considering how digital transformations...
This article is a shortened version of a webinar that we gave at Ecsite this year. You can rewatch the full length webinar here or right...
For years, I had a deep skepticism of Augmented Reality (AR). While I could see the revolutionary potential of AR in the distant future, when...
It’s no secret that museums have been hit hard by Covid-19, with social distancing forcing them to close for several months and now limiting the...
There are not so many successful cases of cooperation between large commercial brands and small (often non-profit) museums. Here is the story of how a...
In 2016 the Mental Health Foundation released a document titled Fundamental Facts about Mental Illness 2016, which stated that problems concerning mental health are one...
