Search Museum Next

Blog

Digital

Can Museums Take Their Blockbusters Online?

Many museums have started to offer virtual tours of their collections during the global health crisis which has forced the closure of most galleries and...

Digital

Virtual Reality Fireworks Above the Forbidden City

A major retrospective show at Beijing’s Forbidden City opened in December as a part of the complex’s 600th-anniversary commemorations. The exhibition, which is known as...

Digital

Talking Minecraft with Adam Clarke, Artist and Digital Producer

Ahead of his Digital Summit talk on Tuesday 23rd February, Adam Clarke gives a glimpse into the content of his session – “The story is...

Conference

Who’s speaking at Culture Geek 2021

Under normal circumstances the Culture Geek Conference takes place in London with 8 – 10 speakers. This years virtual edition will welcome more than fifty...

Digital

Norton Museum Of Art Brings Art to Life With AR

The Norton Museum of Art, which is located in West Palm Beach in Florida, has said it will allow visitors greater accessibility to its collection...

Digital

Museums in Lockdown: Rijksmuseum

It may have felt like the world came to a grinding halt for large parts of 2020. But against the backdrop of COVID-19, creativity still...

Digital

Instagram Adds Smithsonian Museums’ Exhibits With AR

Augmented reality (AR) technologies have been used in museum contexts before but now the approach has been utilised by one of the world’s biggest social...

Digital

A new kind of challenge: curating in the COVID-19 crisis

Rapid response and celebrating the mundane. Creative solutions have been the order of the day for the arts and culture sector through 2020. COVID-19 has...

Uncategorized

Museum of London Collects Covid Dreams

The coronavirus pandemic may have caused a significant number of changes to the daily lives of people around the globe but it is also having...

Digital

Akron Art Museum Launches Augmented Reality Experience

The Akron Art Museum in Ohio, USA, has announced that it intends to bring interactivity and a unique art experience to the homes of the...

Digital

V&A Dundee Aims to Help People Living With Dementia

The Communities Producer at the Victoria and Albert Museum in Dundee has said that the museum will is now using a range of technologies to...

Digital

Museum Digital Predictions for 2021

2021 is just around the corner and after a year which saw digital take centre stage in the museum world, what can we expect in...

Film

Ensuring Black Museums Matter

Jim Richardson: Welcome back to MuseumNext Disrupt. Today, we’ve got a fantastic presentation for you from De Nichols. She’s going to be talking about the...

Film

Rapid Prototyping for Museums

Jérémie McGowan: Hello everyone, and welcome to this session of MuseumNext Disrupt, on rapid prototyping for museums. My name is Jérémie McGowan, and I’m a...

Film

In Conversation with Nick Merriman

Jim Richardson: So welcome back to MuseumNext Disrupt. Today, I’m at the Horniman Museum and Gardens in London, and I’m here with the Executive Director,...

Film

Collaborative Leadership That Works!

Mike Murawski: Okay. I want to welcome everyone to this panel session for our Museum NXT on Collaborative Leadership That Works. My name is Mike...

Film

Intentional Civility

Jim Richardson: Hello and welcome to the third session of MuseumNext Disrupt. Today, we’ve got a real treat for you, a talk, a keynote from...

Film

In Conversation with Chris Michaels, The National Gallery

  Jim Richardson: Hello, today I am at The National Gallery with Chris Michaels, who is Director of Digital Communications and Technology. And I really...

Film

How museums can tell stories online that people want to hear

   Why do people get lost in a novel, spend hours binge-wachting series on Netflix and forget the time while scrolling through their social...

Uncategorized

The people behind museums: Spencer Clark, ATS Heritage

ATS Heritage are the leading providers of audio, multimedia and digital guides in the UK. Working across such illustrious locations as Buckingham Palace, St Paul’s...

Uncategorized

Tiqets Announces Winners of the 4th Annual Most Remarkable Venue Awards

With more than 150 nominees and spanning 7 categories and 6 markets, the 4th annual Remarkable Venue Awards was a chance for museums and attractions to celebrate...

Film

Inclusivity in Museum Storytelling

How are institutions shaping their programming to reflect an increasingly pluralistic museum-going public? As audience demographics continue to shift, representation matters—particularly in highly diverse cities...

Film

How tech can help bridge the arts access divide

  It is only recently that the country’s largest museums have begun to seriously consider the fact that their collections should better reflect the demographics...

Film

Museum of Things for People

  With Museum of Things for People (MoTfP) Design Museum Gent examined the conduct and expectations of visitors in the exhibition Object Stories, which shows...