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Vagina Museum to open in London
London has some of the world’s most famous museums that have set the standard for the entire sector in many ways. There again, it also...
Hannah Hethmon on Podcasting in Museums
Hannah Hethmon is an expert on Podcasting for Museums, and the author of Your Museum Needs A Podcast. In October she’ll be speaking at the...
How Are Museums Using Chatbots?
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...
What Can Near-Field Communications Do For Museums?
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...
Get involved with ArtStrike
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...
Bringing 17th-Century Documents from Rembrandt’s day to Life Using Augmented Reality
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...
Brazilian Museum Professionals Memorialise Museum with a Tattoo
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....
The Changing Face of Museum Tours
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...
Museums & Truth. The Truth is, there is More Than one Truth!
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...
Huge Haul of Artefacts Returned to Iraq by the British Museum
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...
Powerful Opening Lines to Help Museums Grab Attention Online
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...
What makes a great museum label?
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...
Staff Walkout at the Science Museum
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...
How to Create a great Museum Brand Identity?
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 Museum Encourages Visitors To Walk In Someone Else’s Shoes
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...
Gallery Leverages Kickstarter Campaign For Green Energy
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 Collection Purchases Fractional Shares in Artwork
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...
Rio Slavery Museum Raises Questions
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...
Mindfulness for Museum Professionals
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...
TripAdvisor for Museums: Best Practice
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...
How can games in museums enhance visitor experience?
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...
Museums and Employee Diversity
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...
