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When ‘Digital’ meets Collection: How do (traditional) museums manage?
Museums are awash in all things ‘digital’. We have apps, gallery interactives, virtual reality experiences, video exhibition teasers, social media marketing, online museum shops, ticketing...
The Museum Workers’ Guide to Buying a Dalek
In 2018 Drone Dalek No. 4 arrived at Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire. The Dalek was to become part of the National Trust’s Museum of Childhood...
What does blockchain mean for art museums and could it bring transparency to the art market?
Whether you follow trends in technology, banking, or digital art, chances are you’ve heard of blockchain. This digital record-keeping technology is relatively new but has...
The social impact of museums working with refugees and migrants
How do museums fit into the narrative around the refugee and migrant crisis? Migration is a big political issue, both in North America and Europe....
The Chicago company opening museum doors to people with autism
A visit to a museum can be challenging for a person with autism. People on the spectrum interact with the world in a different way....
This California museum has turned its events into marketing machines
There are lots of reasons why museums run events. They can be one-off events, collection launches or a regular series. An event can tie in...
Snapchat launches virtual Museum to celebrate Black History Month
Snapchat is helping to mark Black History Month with a new Lens that lets users visit a new Augmented Reality art gallery dedicated to young black artists. Snapchatters can access the...
How do you start a museum? Advice from four museum leaders who’ve done it
The process of translating an idea and opening your doors as a museum can be a challenging and foreboding process. To help give insight on...
Best practice in making Museums more accessible to visually impaired visitors
Museums have a duty to cater to people with a wide range of needs and this includes visually impaired people. This is not a small...
What can Massive Open Online Courses do for Museums, and how are they using them?
MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course. A MOOC is a web-based learning resource that is available to students all over the world. This type...
How Katrina Sedgwick went from street theatre to arts supremo
In her 50th birthday speech, delivered in the backyard of her inner-Melbourne home, Katrina Sedgwick thanked a man forever associated with a pair of snug...
6 Ways You Can Celebrate International Women’s Day at Your Museum
Over the past decade museums have increasingly looked to diversify both their collections and the stories that they tell to become more representative of their...
Bring the Museum to the Classroom with Virtual Reality Field Trips
Most museums regularly welcome field trips through their doors, but unfortunately not every school is able to visit a museum in person. Could virtual reality...
Making the Museum Autism Friendly – best practice from around the world
There are many museums working hard to make people with autism feel welcome. Autism is a condition which affects how a person experiences the world...
Film: Benefits of Mixed Reality in Museums
New mixed reality technologies such as HoloLens blend the physical world with the digital world. In this talk by Dan Ayob from Microsoft he talks about...
Art meets Artificial Intelligence as museum resurrects Salvador Dalí
The Dali Museum in Florida have unveiled an inventive artificial intelligence project that will give visitors the opportunity to learn more about Dali’s life and...
Removing Barriers Through Authentic Communication
As arts organizations, we are really good at putting up barriers for attendance. Some of these barriers are real and some are perceived. Some of...
How museums are helping homeless people
Museums are helping homeless people in a variety of ways. Homelessness is an important issue in the United States. The US Department of Housing and...
What does it mean to decolonize a museum?
In the past few years, museums across the US, Europe, and Australia are trying to tackle the challenge of decolonizing their institutions. However, the very...
How Museums are using Augmented Reality – best practice from museums around the world
Augmented reality is the process of using technology to superimpose images, text or sounds on top of what a person can already see. It uses...
Film: How Can You Decolonise Museums?
How can you decolonise museums? This presentation shares how Birmingham Museum collaborated with local cultural activists with a strong record of challenging museums to create...
Talking Art and Dementia at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Play is something we associate naturally with kids. We forget how to play as we get older; so, being given permission to play is highly...
