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5 Tips for Involving Teenagers in Your Museum Using a Chatbot
In a previous article we told you how we tried to build a Museum chatbot in 2002, and why we failed. Our story does not...
Film: Marking The Centenary of the First World War With Art
On 1 July 2016, thousands of volunteers took part in a modern memorial to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. ‘we’re here...
How to get millennials into your Museum with escape rooms
Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, Flikr, Pintrest, Tumblr, YouTube and LinkedIn – all popular social media sites used predominantly by the 18-30 age bracket, a.k.a....
Film: Museum develops game to inspire action around climate change
Becky Menlove Associate Director for Visitor Experience, Natural History Museum of Utah James Allsopp Head of Design, Preloaded Find out what happened when the Natural...
Film: Jumpstarting a Museum’s Social Value
Wendy Wolf Deputy Director for Learning and Community Engagement Vizcaya As Vizcaya embark upon their centennial year and new master plan, they are exploring how...
The cost of internships to the Museum sector
Last month an email popped up in my inbox via an industry mailing list: ‘I am recruiting an intern to lead on building and populating...
Five reasons that Museums are radical spaces
Museums often hold diverse collections. Think of the Royal Ontario Museum whose holdings include dinosaurs, building columns, and moccasins in one collection. Accusations of privilege...
Ten tips to make your next conference the best yet
We have welcomed thousands of people to MuseumNext from all over the world since 2009. During that time we have learnt that those who have...
Startups Disrupting Museums
While plenty of innovation happens in museums and galleries, there is also an incredible ecosystem of innovative startups working alongside the cultural sector. These startups...
Seven productivity hacks for Museum professionals
Working in a museum has never been so demanding, and increasingly what every museum job has in common is that there don’t seem to be...
3 Lessons learnt from Building our first Museum Chatbot… 15 years ago!
Once upon a time, in 2002, when mobile phones were like this, we were working at the Digital Department of the Science Museum “Leonardo da...
The Museum as Workspace, Part II
The first part of this post explored the reasons why museum workspaces tend to be, shall we say, sub-optimal. This second installment provides suggestions for...
The Museum as Workspace
Ask anyone who works at a museum what they love about their job, and chances are they won’t respond “my workspace.” Generally located in the...
Film: The Problem with using the word ‘Diversity’
Shaz Hussain, Collections Assistant at the Royal Air Force Museum London. Okay, hi, I’m Shaz. I’m a Collections Assistant, at the RAF Museum in London....
Museum puts T. rex on Tinder to make new audiences fall in love with them
Teddy is your average T. rex, loud, hungry (#palaeodiet), fossilized, and he loves a good movie theme song. But what is he doing on Tinder?...
Film: Kimberly Drew on becoming an advocate for artists of color
In this talk, Kimberly Drew, who currently serves as The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Social Media Manager discusses her blog Black Contemporary Art, her work...
Film: How Can a European Museum Attract Chinese Tourists?
With over 2,000,000 Chinese tourists who visited France in 2015, China is France’s second tourist market after the United States, but how can a European Museum...
Film: How Can a Museum Use Kickstarter to Crowdfund?
In 2016 the Science Museum London crowdfunded £51,000 to recreate Eric, the UK’s first robot. How can a museum use Kickstarter to fund the things...
Social Media as Museum Object
It has become commonplace to engage with museums online. Indeed social media and the web are now the main ways that museum goers find out...
Fair pay in Museums?
‘Does your museum pay staff an amount that they can reasonably be expected to live on?’, that’s a question that I’ve been asking museum professionals...
Communicating the Social Impact of Museums
I would hope that anyone working in museums believes in the positive effect that they have. They change lives, enrich communities and makes our cities better places to...
In Conversation with Shelley Bernstein
Shelley Bernstein is a renowned digital leader who tirelessly pushed the boundaries and challenged the traditional way of doing things with her groundbreaking work as...
