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The Art Gallery of New South Wales programme combines separate gallery discussions with shared artmaking, giving families time to explore without a prescribed result.
ARTEMIS Digital grew from an in-person museum programme into a web application, with testing that shaped its pace, navigation and opportunities for shared looking.
Incorporating food into museum programming offers a unique and dynamic way to engage audiences by connecting cultural heritage, history, and art through a universal human...
In June 2026, the EU’s three main institutions put culture’s benefits for health and wellbeing into a shared political commitment for the first time. For...
Teenagers are swapping phone numbers at the end of a museum workshop. A young person who barely left home for three years is pitching their...
A simple artwork-tagging tool has become the starting point for friendships and a renewed pride in place. At the Digital Collections Summit 2026, Art UK’s...
Try to imagine studying the Renaissance without its art. Now imagine a historian in 2126 trying to understand our era without hashtags, viral videos or...
Doctors are prescribing gallery visits. Care homes are receiving museum collections. People living with dementia are reliving Eurovision classics with a mobile museum. Here is...
From exhibitions that turn industrial heritage into hope to galleries built for climate grief, museums are finding their voice on the defining issue of our...
Imagine unlocking hidden histories or revealing invisible artworks in everyday places. These are just some of the possibilities that museums are exploring with Augmented Reality,...
For a growing share of your potential audience, the first encounter with your museum is a vertical video they did not go looking for. It...
Helen Maher and Xuxa Kidd told the 2025 Museums & Social Media Summit how a muddy knitted cap pulled from the Thames became their most...
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...
The MAS team saw an opportunity to connect Antwerp’s martial arts communities with the museum. In Antwerp, a hyperdiverse city where martial arts of every...
Virtual reality can help museums reconstruct a place, show an object at a different scale or invite visitors into a story. The examples below explore...
A muddy cap, a Van Gogh, a painting on day release. Here is how six museums turned things in cases into things people care about....
Partnerships within Unlocking Our Sound Heritage turned archive recordings into creative encounters, with lessons in accessible participation and culturally relevant programming.
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...
For students pursuing a career in museums, building a strong foundation of knowledge is crucial. From curation and exhibition design to education, activism, and ethics,...
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 team...
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...
