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Brand licensing opportunities and museums – mercenary or an inevitability?
The great museum pivot has been a hot topic in recent months. As institutions around the globe have fought to react to lockdowns, closures and...
In conversation with: Paige Dansinger, Founding Director of the Horizon Art Museum and Better World Art Museum
“Better World Museum and the Horizon Art Museum are proud to not be normal! Creative technology allows things that have never been done before. We...
The tech start-up plugging museums into the potential of Desktop AR
At MuseumNext we receive our fair share of enquiries from new tech companies looking to launch into the museum market. And while not all are...
Survey: Effect of Covid-19 Pandemic on Museums?
The pandemic has represented one of the most challenging periods in living memory for the arts and culture sector. So, MuseumNext wanted to know how...
Museums, consumer trends and COVID-19: taking stock of the world we find ourselves in today
The way we consume and interact with content has been thoroughly put to the test over the past year. Let’s look at how the broader...
Which Museum Conferences to attend in 2021?
It’s difficult to keep track of all of the great museum conferences taking place around the world, especially when virtual events make even more great...
In conversation with: Josh Dyer, Director of Marketing, Myseum of Toronto
“We had a strategy to capture, repackage and present digital content in dynamic ways . . . Covid forced us to execute that strategy much...
Roundtable with Dave Patten, The Science Museum
From social distancing to flexible interfaces, chemical screen cleaning to robot tours. In a recent virtual meet-up, Dave Patten took Jim Richardson and the MuseumNext...
In conversation with: Hilary Knight, Director of Digital, Tate
“We had to take the temperature of the public: find out where they were in their mindset and what they needed from us.” Ahead...
How Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Arts Africa pivoted during the global pandemic
Three months into a new digital role. Faced with a global pandemic. Responsible for shaping the direction of a museum’s communication with the outside world...
Museum Branding That Stands Out From The Crowd
There are some museum brands that are recognised all over the world. If you say MoMA or The Smithsonian, most people will already have an idea...
Natural History Museum reaches Chinese audiences with Fliggy
One of London’s most famous museums has been reaching Chinese audiences with local live streaming services in its pursuit of virtual visitors in China. The...
What are Mindful Museums and how can they help us with our mental health?
Mindfulness is a bit of a buzzword recently. This is because there are many studies that say it has a positive impact on health and...
How Are Museums Harnessing Immersive Technology to Provide Experiences?
The coronavirus pandemic has forced many museums to close their doors for much of the past year. Causing cultural institutions to look to digital technology...
In conversation with: Chris Cloud, Director of Communications and Marketing, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
“This crisis has really forced museums to evaluate all aspects of their brand and marketing. From their values to their audiences to their channels ....
Museum 4.0 – adding unique interactive augmented reality experiences has never been so easy
INDOAR is a hardware-free, augmented reality based indoor navigation system that is able to create an amazing, easily manageable, AR experience for your visitors. It’s...
The interaction between art and a global pandemic
For close to a year now, daily life has been turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of the virus’s spread has been...
GeoMuseUM geolocative web app and sculpture guide
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected how cultural institutions interact—not just with their communities but with the spaces they inhabit. Suddenly, the capacity for digital innovation...
Why 2021 will be momentous for social justice in museums
If 2020 was a year that put social justice issues in the spotlight, 2021 will be a year for some landmark changes to remedy these...
Has Covid-19 changed what we value and how we measure it in the museum sector?
For decades museums have judged visitor numbers to be the primary metric to define success in any given year. More footfall means opportunities to expand...
How the Van Gogh Museum found digital success in 2020
As a fine example of a museum that was ahead of the digital curve when Covid-19 hit Europe, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam was...
Never Before Seen Images Available at the Science Museum
The Science Museum Group announced in January that it would make available a vast array of images it has in its collection that have never...
