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How Kunsthalle Praha Is Using AI to Help Students See Art Differently
AI is often seen as the enemy of creativity — a machine poised to replace the artist, the writer, the dreamer. But what if it...
How Do Museums Access Affordable, High-Quality Training Online?
As museums navigate shifting audience expectations, rapid digital change, and increasing pressure to deliver more with fewer resources, access to professional development has never been...
A Decade of Digitization: How Museums Are Saving the Planet, One Specimen at a Time
The Natural History Museum in London holds 80 million specimens — and 80 million stories. For decades, these stories lived behind the scenes, accessible only...
Turning Collections Into Data: Unlocking Hidden Stories at the Science Museum Group
What happens when museums stop treating their collections as static objects, and instead see them as data? That’s the question Daniel Belteki, Digital Research Applications...
Beyond the Frame: How Digital Engagement is Rewriting the Gallery Experience
When you walk into the Art Gallery of Hamilton, you’re surrounded by more than 11,000 works of art. For Ty Tekatch, lead of Media Production,...
Inside the Infinite Rijksmuseum: How One Museum Is Rethinking Digital Collections
When the Rijksmuseum launched Rijksstudio back in 2012, it made headlines for offering the world high-resolution images of masterpieces—completely free to download, remix, and even...
Connecting the dots within Wellcome Collection
How can cultural institutions use technology to build a more equitable future? Wellcome Collection are transforming digital access to their vast holdings through a new...
Unlocking 22 Million Stories: How the Australian Museum is Digitising Knowledge and Culture
Step into the Australian Museum and you’ll see galleries filled with towering dinosaur skeletons, sparkling minerals and gemstones, and intricately woven cultural items. But hidden...
Conservation Classroom: How a Zoo Built a Digital Collection for Learning
When we think of digital collections, our minds usually go to objects: artifacts, documents, photographs. But what if a collection wasn’t made up of things,...
How Beamish Museum Used Microsoft 365 to Solve Its Biggest Collections Challenge
Walk through the gates of Beamish Museum and you’re stepping into the past. From the grit of the 1820s to the optimism of the 1950s,...
How the National Gallery of Art is Using AI to Unlock New Insights into Art and Pain Managment
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is pioneering new ways of using artificial intelligence (AI) to broaden how collections are studied and applied...
When AI Meets the Archive: How IWM Is Reimagining Access to Sound and Image Collections
What happens when you have more than 20 million documents, 11 million photographs, and countless hours of recorded voices—but only limited ways for the public...
How AI and Volunteers Are Breathing New Life Into the Archives of the Plantin-Moretus Museum
Step into Antwerp’s Museum Plantin-Moretus and you are stepping into history. Once the bustling workshop of Christophe Plantin, founded in 1555, and later the home...
Lessons from a Cyberattack: The National Museum of the Royal Navy’s Journey Through Crisis and Recovery
On 9 December 2024, the National Museum of the Royal Navy faced an event that every museum hopes never to experience: a ransomware cyberattack. Overnight,...
How a Danish Museum Turned Climate Concern into Collective Action
At Mark | Museum for a New Danish History, curator Anna Louise Siggaard has been experimenting with a radical idea: if museums want people to...
YOU:MATTER: How Data, Art, and Wonder Came Together in Bradford
What happens when you take a city’s health data, mix it with the origins of the universe, and hand it over to a group of...
How Millions of Minutes of Audio Are Changing the Way We Learn About the Holocaust
Here’s a number you might not expect: in 2024 alone, listeners streamed more than 1 million minutes of Holocaust Encyclopaedia audio content. Do the math,...
Inside The National Gallery’s Imaginarium
When The National Gallery turned 200 it asked itself a question few institutions dare: how do you celebrate the past without being trapped by it?...
Why Creativity Is the Hidden Superpower in Schools
What happens when a museum, a primary school, and an artist walk into the same project? According to Natalie Wallace, Head of Learning at the...
From the Museum to YouTube: Museums Victoria’s Science is a Superpower
When Museums Victoria launched its Digital Content Studio in 2019, the goal was clear: to create bold, audience-first digital storytelling that would expand the museum’s...
How The National Gallery Harnessed Creators to Celebrate 200 Years
How can museums collaborate meaningfully with social media creators to reach new audiences? That was the question explored by Ellie Wyant, Senior Communications Manager for...
Green Museums Summit Returns for 2026
MuseumNext has announced that the Green Museums Summit will return on 25–26 February 2026, bringing together museum professionals from around the world to explore how...
