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What do the Smithsonian, DIA and Green Bay Packers all have in common?

Interactive experience platform, Goosechase, is quickly building a reputation for helping cultural venues and tourist attractions to engage their communities and encourage participation around the...

Digital

How The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis embraced digital immersion from the inside out

The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis partnered with CyArk, a non-profit with a focus on digital preservation of cultural heritage, to highlight sacred places and stories...

Digital

Exploring the past and embracing the future

David Wright is part of Durham University’s Museums, Galleries and Exhibitions Team, working on public facing projects across all the University’s visitor attractions. His work helps to connect...

Engagement

Play, interactivity and environmental responsibility

Primeval forest of Silva is an award-winning interactive workshop and immersive experience for children. Launched in June 2022 to critical acclaim and visitor delight, the...

Engagement

Creating a playful space for all at Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Jason Povlotsky and Stavros Mavrakis of Quarterre design studio share their experience of supporting Buffalo AKG Art Museum and the Lego Foundation on the development...

Engagement

From self-guided tours to event organisation: Goosechase

Interactive experience platform, Goosechase, helps organisations to engage their communities and encourage participation around the world. With a track record for working with tourist attractions,...

Engagement

Playful Exhibition Design for Everyone

What I have learned about the value of play from my career in children’s museums Adults are just children who have grown older. This is...

Engagement

Engaging young visitors at Bletchley Park through gamification

MuseumNext chats to Emily Scott-Dearing and Erica Munro about how they worked to strengthen the multigenerational offering at Bletchley Park, the top-secret home of World...

Engagement

Promoting positive connections with playboxes at the National Museum of the Royal Navy

Claire Hargreaves, Public Programming Manager and Producer for the National Museum of the Royal Navy, and Stephanie Jefferies, play designer of Play Explore Art, share...

Engagement

It’s all fun and games: how Shepparton Art Museum is using play to engage young visitors

Olivia Trenorden, Public Programs Coordinator at the Shepparton Art Museum, shares how utilising low-tech, low-cost resources can help create a sense of play among young...

Engagement

Increasing parent-child interaction through play at the Science Centre Singapore

Alida Goh and Lah Jia Min, Science Educators at KidsSTOP™, share how their Little Footprints initiative is enhancing interactions between parents and children within a...

Digital

Eat or be eaten: How the Monterey Bay Aquarium uses gaming to inspire empathy for deep-sea life

Erica Kelly, Director of Exhibition Content at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, shares how her team brought a large-scale video game into the exhibition space in...

Digital

Making sense of media through gamification with the Institute of Sound & Vision

Koen Snijders and Karen Drost of the Media Museum in Hilversum walk MuseumNext through their experience of developing a new educational app – Glitch –...

Digital

Collaboration is key to getting VR to where we all know it should be

As the old saying goes: “a problem shared is a problem halved”. So, how can collaboration help to reduce the burden on individual museums when...

Engagement

Why do stories matter to museums and how can museums become better storytellers?

Stories are universal. We all read, watch and listen to them. We all tell them. Stories are part of what makes us human. In fact,...

Conference

Getting More From MuseumNext Virtual Conferences

In the ever-evolving landscape of professional development, virtual conferences have emerged as a valuable platform for continuous learning and growth. With the introduction of all-access...

Digital

Using ethical AI to understand audience behaviour and drive informed innovation

Andy Crouch explains how the team at Akumen is utilising “ethical AI” to better understand the emotions and behaviours of audiences through their own words....

Ideas

How to design an exhibition: These 5 tips should be your mantra

Creating an exhibition is an imaginative endeavor that thankfully doesn’t adhere to any stringent rules dictating its success or failure. From my decade-plus experience in...

Marketing

Quirky Museum Marketing Ideas to Get Noticed!

Museums around the world need to constantly come up with inventive new Museum marketing ideas. From putting a moustache on an aeroplane to setting dinosaurs...

Engagement

Rules for a Playful Museum

Ahead of October’s Museums, Games and Play Summit, MuseumNext takes a closer look at the Rules for a Playful Museum e-book created by Charlotte Derry...

Engagement

How the creative use of audio tours is attracting a new museum audience

They say an image can convey a thousand words. But what about the context behind that image? Here’s how audio tours are helping to deepen...

Engagement

Reimagining Museum Tours: How Creatives are Transforming the Museum Experience

Museum fatigue, the overwhelming feeling that guests experience when presented with an abundance of information, can hinder their ability to absorb facts. This struggle is...

Professional Development

Exploring Museum Professional Development Courses

Museum Professional Development Courses serve as vital learning pathways, tailor-made to meet the unique needs of those working in the vibrant museum industry. As the...

Digital

Avatars talking: Learning Buddies of the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum

Linda Reiter and Anna Konrath of Fluxguide explain how they worked with the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum – the German Mining Museum – to create an...