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Ever since the pioneering mathematician and computer scientist, Alan Turing, posed the question of whether computers would be able to think in the future, people...
In museums today, there are all sorts of technologies that are able to merge the real-world experience of visitors with enhanced information from the virtual...
It started in 2018 with Greta and now it’s coming to a gallery or museum near you.The #ClimateStrike movement has grown rapidly over the last...
What if you would take a bunch of 400 year-old, illegible books about Rembrandt, place them in an exhibition space usually frequented by people over...
Just over a year ago, on September 2nd 2018, the news of the fire at Brazil’s famed National Museum was broadcasting rapidly across the world....
There was a time when the mention of a museum tour evoked images of branded blazers, heavily scripted journeys around a single collection and a...
Today’s art museums and historic sites are more than places to preserve the art, artifacts and memories of the past. They are the new town...
In August, the British Museum conducted a huge handover of Iraqi artefacts to the authorities there. The treasures were sent to their home country following...
As I type this, I’m picturing you as a wild animal, perhaps a hungry leopard. I watch you prowl through the African savannah. You’re on...
The best museum labels do more than provide information. A great museum label takes its reader on a revelatory journey, reframing perceptions along the way...
Employees at the Science Museum in London and other sites across the rest of the UK took part in a 24-hour strike in August in...
What makes one museum brand identity stand out from the crowd and another instantly forgettable? How can a great brand identity give your museum the...
Empathy, or the human ability to understand what somebody else is feeling, may not immediately sound like it is the sort of thing that could...
Sustainability has been something of a watchword in the museum and gallery sector for some time now and yet there has not been a great...
ING, the Dutch banking group, has been involved with supporting artists for over 45 years. According to the team behind the ING Collection, it has...
Following the election of Jair Messias Bolsonaro to the presidency of Brazil, there have been a number of controversies in the country’s public life. As...
There may be a few souls out there who still believe that academics, librarians and museum professionals live cloistered lives away from the hurly-burly of...
What kind of relationship does your museum have with TripAdvisor? Have you ever quantified it? After all, that’s what TripAdvisor itself is all about and...
Museums are typically thought of as destinations to house and display art, artefacts and collections of cultural interest. But in an age of shortened attention...
When you look at the museum sector as a whole, it is incredibly diverse. Nearly every aspect of human history, scientific research, creative arts and...
By the time we arrive at the second Brexit deadline on 31st October this year, it will be exactly a year since widespread reports in...
What’s the UK’s most popular visitor attraction? Many visitors believe it must be Buckingham Palace, or the Tower of London. If not one of these,...
