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ATS, Digitisation.IO and Genus: A Photogrammetry Service Introduced in 2023
This supplier account, published in June 2023, introduces ATS’s 3D photogrammetry service with Digitisation.IO and Genus. The partners describe an end-to-end offer combining collection capture,...
How Ingenium Co-Designed an Accessible Tractor Game
In this May 2023 interview, Ryan Dodge explains how Ingenium redesigned a popular tractor experience at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum. Steps into the...
Inside Cipher Machines: Deutsches Museum’s 3D-Cipher Project
Matthias Göggerle sat down with MuseumNext to explain how Computed Tomography (CT) technology has enabled the Deutsches Museum in Munich to digitise multi-material historical artefacts...
Designing Visitor Agency into Hybrid Museum Tours
In this 2023 interview, Jussi Ängeslevä asks how remote museum visitors can make meaningful choices and participate with others. He discusses NuForm, ART+COM’s research project...
Nasjonalmuseet’s Collection API: The My Collection Case Study
Update checked in October 2026: Nasjonalmuseet’s developer page states that Collection API version 1 was retired in January 2025. It directs users seeking public collection...
How Mia Increased Mobile-Guide Use for Special Exhibitions
The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) team reported that its special-exhibition mobile guide reached more than a third of visitors after a year of iteration....
How the National Museum of Wildlife Art Built Bisoncast
In this May 2023 interview, Jane Lavino and Carrie Schwartz share how the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s desire to make collections more accessible and...
Listen Up! How ANOHA Tested a Hybrid Game with Its Children’s Council
In this 2023 interview, the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB) team explains how it tested Listen Up!, a hybrid audio and hidden-object game at ANOHA, with...
How NCMA Built Digital Touch Labels Around Its Collection
In this 2023 interview, Felicia Ingram and Kevin Kane explain how the North Carolina Museum of Art developed digital touch labels, first installed in 2022,...
How Explora combines AR anatomy cards with group learning
Paolo De Gasperis, Head of Digital and EdTech at Explora Children’s Museum of Rome, shares how his museum brought a card game to life by...
How Invisible Worlds Turns Scientific Data into an Immersive Exhibition
MuseumNext finds out more about how the American Museum of Natural History’s “Invisible Worlds” exhibition was brought to vivid and immersive life, ahead of its...
Retail Therapy: Using Museum Shops for Digital Fundraising
I’m not sure about you, but I’ve always had a massive soft spot for museum gift shops. The walls of collectible postcards, quirky homewares, unique...
How museums use tone of voice to reveal their hidden personalities
What does your museum sound like? I’m not referring to the chatter of schoolchildren or the ambient hum of dehumidifiers. What do the words you...
Leveraging AI to increase visitor numbers at the Spazju Kreattiv, Malta
Cesare Fialà, Co-Founder and CEO of Culture Hint, explains how his optimisation platform worked with the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage in Malta and Culture Venture...
Museums mark Earth Day with digital artwork inspired by animals in museum collections
The 2023 Earth Day launch and activities On Saturday 22nd April 2023, “The Wild Escape” will be unveiled to celebrate Earth Day – an initiative...
Museum Gift Shop Ideas: Three Ways to Reach New Audiences
Practical museum gift shop ideas for working with local makers, developing a distinctive range and welcoming shoppers beyond exhibition visitors.
SHMOG NXT: Recreating Glass and Its Stories in a Virtual Museum
In this April 2023 interview, Tilman Thürmer, Design Director and Vice President of the Shanghai Museum of Glass, discusses the plans for SHMOG NXT ahead...
How Guggenheim Students Created Public Interpretation
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum invited university students to help shape its public interpretation through academic partnerships...
How Meetup SNG Builds an Art Programme with Teenagers
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Meetup SNG began at the Slovak National Gallery in 2017 as a course for 13–16-year-olds to spend...
How the National Military Museum uses AR tours and virtual guides
Freek Teunen, CCO of Wintor AR Tours, shares his company’s recent experience of working with the National Military Museum to incorporate augmented reality into its...
How MCA Chicago Used SMS to Support Its Museum Store
Could a simple text message boost your museum’s revenue and engagement? The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago has proven it can. Through a carefully...
How Are Museums Reducing Waste And Working Towards Net Zero?
Bruno Maquart, Chairman and CEO of Universcience in France, explains to MuseumNext how a keen focus on reuse and recycling is helping to reduce carbon...
