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By partnering with Canada’s national nature prescription programme, the Vancouver Art Gallery has created something genuinely new: a social prescribing initiative that brings art, nature,...

Miraikan ran a four-month campaign to encourage employees to swap disposables for reusables. Here’s what they learned about making sustainability behaviour change actually work. When...

How the University of Oxford’s Gardens, Libraries and Museums is using handling objects and creative activities to support wellbeing inside HMP Bullingdon and HMP Grendon....

What happens when you design for “how do I be with the art?” rather than “what is the art?” — and why a live gallery...

The Whitney Museum of American Art has built two distinctive partnerships with New York hospital systems — and the results are transforming how medical professionals...

How a Swiss museum partnered with a healthcare clinic to create a space where strangers could explore what it means to connect. There’s a question...

What if an art museum’s role extended beyond curating masterpieces and educating school groups? What if its platforms — its walls, its festivals, its expertise...

As museums confront the realities of the climate crisis, the conversation around carbon reduction has shifted from aspiration to action. Institutions are increasingly recognising that...

What do railways, forests, Eurovision, and old suitcases have in common? On the surface, not much. But for people living with dementia in Liverpool—and increasingly...

Why should kids have all the fun? Museums have an incredible potential to not only educate adults, but also engage and entertain them. Through using...

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,...

Learn how investing in your growth can transform your career — and your institution. Museums are at a crossroads. Visitor expectations are changing, digital transformation...

Here’s a thought experiment: What if your museum handed over its TikTok account to a bunch of teenagers—no filters, no approvals, just… full access? If...

Museums have long been sanctuaries of art, history, and culture, offering visitors a chance to step away from the hustle and bustle of daily life....

Here’s a question worth asking: What does a cardboard banana have to do with digital transformation at a national museum? The answer, it turns out,...

If you stroll down Oxford Road in Manchester, you may notice an eight-legged sentinel lurking behind glass—looming, slightly menacing, and, as it turns out, unexpectedly...

What does it really take to create a viral video for a museum? Is it about the object on screen, the quick editing, the platform,...

If you ask most people what heritage organisations do, they will probably point you toward the past, stories carved in stone, artefacts under glass, timelines...

If you want to understand how The Object, a quietly loved podcast from the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) grew into a theatre-filling live event,...

Walk into the V&A East Storehouse and the first thing that hits you is the scale. Half a million objects sit in a vast former...

Sustainable exhibition design is no longer an optional enhancement, it is an expectation shared by audiences, funders, and cultural workers who increasingly recognise museums as...

Climate change is complex, emotionally charged, and often overwhelming. Museums, however, have the power to translate this global issue into stories people can feel, understand,...

AI is often seen as the enemy of creativity — a machine poised to replace the artist, the writer, the dreamer. But what if it...

As museums navigate shifting audience expectations, rapid digital change, and increasing pressure to deliver more with fewer resources, access to professional development has never been...