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Located in the Hoxton area of East London, the Geffrye Museum has been open to the public since it was first established in 1914. Over...
Museums around the world need to constantly come up with inventive ways to promote their exhibitions. From putting a moustache on an aeroplane to setting...
It is clear that technology plays a huge part in the modern museum experience. Take for example Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute. They launched a range of...
The renowned American artist, Edward Hopper, was known for the realism that he brought to many of his paintings. Now, the Virginia Museum of Fine...
In Germany, it is being seen a something of a landmark case. Following what seemed to be an open and shut case of the digital...
In a move that has been welcomed by a number of museum professionals and some cultural commentators – who have referred to it as a...
A leading art museum and gallery in the United States has announced that it will seek to address the gender imbalance that many art institutions...
From our early history to the present tidal waves of information on digital platforms – storytelling is key when it comes to reaching out and...
I had the opportunity to attend my first MuseumNext Conference in NYC this November. The theme was the Future of Museum Storytelling and the first...
The Brontë Parsonage Museum which is maintained by the Brontë Society in honour of the famous literary family has secured a new gem in for...
The Van Gogh Museum and the Drents Museum have jointly acquired an early painting by Vincent van Gogh: Peasant Burning Weeds from 1883. The work...
Venice is no stranger to water management and handling floodwater. However, many of its major galleries and museums have faced exceptional levels of flooding in...
The US Presidential race may not yet be officially underway but few political commentators doubt that the incumbent isn’t already in a semi-campaigning mode as...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has been left tens of millions of dollars in the will of one of its major...
A Spanish women’s arts association, known as Mujeres en Las Artes Visuales (MAV), has announced a new technological tool that anyone can use in museums...
In a move that will be welcomed by many protestors and pressure groups, National Galleries Scotland (NGS) has decided to end its links with British...
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London announced in November that it had appointed the current director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art...
The National Portrait Gallery announced in November that it would close its doors to the public for a prolonged period from June 2020. It is...
A crowdfunding campaign has been set up to assist anti-petrochemicals protestors with their aim of highlighting links between the British Museum and one of the...
The globally renowned Centre Pompidou, which is one of the great landmarks of the museum and gallery sector in Paris, has announced an ambitious expansion...
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...
ICOM’s proposal for a new definition of ‘museums’ has recently given rise to considerable debate. I am not concerned here with the question whether the...
