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In May 2022, the Broad in Los Angeles opened the doors to its newest exhibition entitled Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow....
Unexpectedly, the world moved into a new phase that comprised of a global health pandemic and socio-political awakenings. As a museum leader at the Art...
Museums are places of constant inspiration. They can be a riot for all senses and an experience that can stay with visitors forever. However, if...
Engaging with art is proven to have a positive impact on our general wellbeing. Spending time in a gallery or taking part in an engagement...
Museums attract a diverse set of audiences, and the aim of any cultural institution is to engage each audience in the content and activity of...
The subject of wellbeing and mental health within arts and cultural institutions is often centred around displaying or using objects to provide therapeutic assistance to...
Social isolation isn’t a new phenomenon. But it was certainly experienced more widely over the course of the Covid pandemic than at any other time...
In a busy and stressful world, practising mindfulness can be a gateway to navigating the more challenging aspects of our lifestyles. Museums and galleries can...
Miraikan, the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, ranks sustainability as one of its most important themes to guide activity and outreach programmes. This...
Increasingly, museums are recognising the importance of supporting staff and volunteers with a programme of support to assist in the delivery of emotional or traumatic...
As we’ve emerged from the pandemic and cultural venues began to open their doors again, the question on every museum professional’s lips has been: how...
As the home of King George III while receiving treatment during his periods of severe ill mental health, Kew Palace is no stranger to the...
Maintaining and looking after museum exhibitions can have a measurable effect on an institution’s environmental impact. With one eye on the future and an appreciation...
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...
TikTok is one of the fastest growing social media platforms and in 2021 had more online traffic than Google. As its growth and engagement numbers...
We museums are generous. We collect and exhibit objects and spread their stories, often to make lessons of the past tangible and to inspire people...
Do you collect anything? Do you have a shelf of treasured children’s books or an album of stamps? Or even a collection of mugs that...
Working to make museums accessible to a bigger, broader and more varied audience is something that we can all agree on. But as we are...
Could it be that the benefits of the museum space go far beyond education? Museums have always been upheld as hubs of knowledge and culture;...
It’s no longer enough for museums to simply serve as monuments to preservation — they must now focus on conservation, as well. As climate change...
Although TikTok is still considered to be the new social media kid on the block, it’s incredible growth in recent years makes it hard to...
Happy Pride from Belfast! The rainbow flag is flying all over City Centre and a week of queer-themed events has begun in the lead-up to...
