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Film: How Museums Can Expand Narratives With LGBTQ Interpretation
Susan Ferentinos, Public history researcher, writer and consultant spoke at MuseumNext Indianapolis in September 2015 about ways that museums might begin thinking about expanding their...
Film: The Museum As Cultural Commons
Sarah Schultz, Independent Curator and Public Engagement Consultant delivered this presentation at MuseumNext Indianapolis asking what a museum would look like if it behaved as...
Film: When your Museum’s community does the blogging
This presentation on getting the local community to blog for a museum was presented by Lori Byrd-McDevitt from the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis at MuseumNext Indianapolis. In it...
Film: Improving the Museum Visitors Experience Through Evaluation
This presentation on improving the museum visitors experience through evaluation was made by Elizabeth Bolander and Bethany Corriveau from Cleveland Museum of Art at MuseumNext Indianapolis,...
Your Best Museum Conference Ever
Over the past decade, we’ve had the pleasure of welcoming thousands of people to our museum conferences from all over the world. during that time...
MuseumNext Announces London Museum Conference 2019
We are pleased to announce that our 2019 European Museum Conference will take place in London on 3 – 5 June. Once again industry leaders...
Film: What is Soft Power and what does it mean for Museums
Gail Dexter Lord, Co-President of Lord Cultural Resources spoke at MuseumNext Geneva in April 2015 about Soft Power and what this concept means for the 21st century...
Film: Emotionalizing the Museum
The 21st Century Museum faces a daunting challenge. Today, people can access all the infomation that they need at the touch of a button, so said...
Film: Transformation of the Olympic Museum
In this presentation Frédérique Jamolli, Head of International Cultural Development for the International Olympic Museum shared her mission to reposition the Olympic Museum as a multisite,...
Film: How to build an open Museum website
Rob Gethen Smith, Lucie Paterson and Paul Vulpiani joined us at MuseumNext Geneva in April 2015 to share the story of their new website, which...
How arts organisations can get more out of e-marketing
Email marketing in some form is already prolific in arts organisations, because it is low cost, targeted and easy to track. With funding cuts looming...
Reaching out to younger museum audiences
Concerned, as they are, with history and permanence, museums are not generally in the business of shaking things up. The idea of new blood –...
Creating a buzz marketing The British Museum
The British Museum is UK’s most popular visitor attraction with over six million visitors last year, the museum has a collection which spans the world...
Why most museum websites are terrible (at achieving mission)
What is the main aim of a museum website? Browsing the internet, you quickly conclude that this is to promote the institution to potential visitors....
Understanding Compelling Museum Collections
Which of our collections best lends themselves to impulse sharing online? Which of our collections are people most willing to talk about online? These two...
QR codes and museums
The Internet of Things is a compelling idea, with its promise of a seamless link between objects in the physical world and associated media in...
Rethinking Museums for the Digital Age
The following presentation was made at the Gulf Arts and Cultural Leaders Summit in Qatar in November 2011 by MuseumNext Founder Jim Richardson. Today I want to talk...
Participants not audiences
The audience is central to much of what a museum does, and visitor surveys and audience segmentation have over the past decade improved our understanding...
Film: Audience Research in the Museum Without Walls
Lynda Kelly is Head of Web and Audience Research at the Australian Museum, Sydney. She has published widely in audience research and writes the popular...
Film: Digital Fundraising for Museums
In his own words, Steve Bridger helps some of the UK’s biggest charities to unlearn stuff and trust more of their own people to build...
Film: Research into games within the context of museums.
Mia Ridge is a cultural heritage technologist, and has worked internationally as an analyst, consultant and programmer. Mia spoke at the 2011 MuseumNext conference in Edinburgh about...
Film: Bringing young people into museums
Geer Oskam is a project manager for Stichting Museumnacht Amsterdam (n8). Founded by the collective of the Amsterdam museums, n8 thinks about ways to engage...
