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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...
Digital Fundraising with Virtual Events
One silver lining to the Covid-19 pandemic and numerous lockdowns has been emergence and popularization of virtual events. Beginning in March 2020, organisations across the...
Plugging into Campaigns to Boost Museum Donations
Museums are profoundly generous organisations, giving access and knowledge to the public to inspire learning and create meaningful experiences. Behind this generous nature are real,...
How museums have taken advantage of the boom in online tutorials
If you have ever painted a happy little tree (or two, as everyone needs a friend) along with Bob Ross, then online tutorials may have...
Museum Branding That Stands Out From The Crowd
There are some museum brands that are recognised all over the world. If you say MoMA or The Smithsonian, most people will already have an idea...
Which Museum Conferences to attend in 2022?
It’s difficult to keep track of all of the great museum conferences taking place around the world, especially when virtual events make even more great...
How Museums Are Using Minecraft to Gamify Learning Experiences
If a museum is about anything, then it is about providing an engaging learning experience. Of course, in a traditional sense, learning is also about...
How to Start a Podcast for Your Museum
For museum professionals working to connect their institutions with new and existing audiences, there are an ever increasing list of channels available and it can...
Small Museums Guide to Successful Fundraising Campaigns
Ah, fundraising. For small museums, it can be one of the most vexing issues. This is usually because simply keeping the museum afloat on a...
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...
The Impact of Teen-Centered Intensive Programming in Museums
It’s one thing to get teens through the door of your museum, it’s another to provide serious benefit to them for doing so. Lifelong benefit,...
How Are Museums Making Money Online?
With so many museums operating with reduced visitor numbers in 2020 and 2021, generating income in new ways has never been more important. Of course,...
QR codes are experiencing a resurgence but how can they benefit museums?
QR codes, or quick response codes, are now seeing a massive surge in their use, partly as a result of the pandemic. Used as a...
How are audience segmentation models adapting for the post-lockdown museum world?
Do you know your Commuterland Culturebuffs from your Kaleidoscope Creativity? These are (as the segmentation savvy will know) two of the profiles from the Audience Agency’s...
People Behind The Museums: Sanjeev Kalyanaraman, Chief Operating Officer, codemantra
As a member of the leadership team at document processing solutions provider, codemantra, Sanjeev Kalyanaraman has worked closely with the museum sector over the past...
Rules for a Playful Museum
Ahead of February’s Museums, Games and Play Summit, MuseumNext takes a closer look at the Rules for a Playful Museum e-book created by Charlotte Derry...
How museums can adapt their content to new short-video formats
In August 2020, Instagram launched a new content format for its users, to compete with the ever growing popularity of TikTok and integrate more diversity...
Mary McGillivray, the TikToker Who Is Making Art History Accessible
Known to hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok, as _theiconoclass, Mary McGillivray is an art historian with a difference. Her lessons in art history...
How has the pandemic shaped how we speak to our audiences?
“How are you? I mean that, because you actually mean that at the minute. When we’re asking (I don’t know if you remember) when we’re...
Fundraising with Membership Schemes
Membership schemes are a great way to get audiences invested in your museum’s mission and vision by offering them behind the scenes access and content...
5 Strategies you need to know to keep your exhibit on budget
Museum exhibits can be pricey. Whether it’s a permanent installation or a travelling exhibition, myriad influences can affect the cost. Image acquisition, AV hardware, shipping,...
Digitally deprived communities are a key audience for museums to reach
If you’ve been one of the multitudes of holidaymakers heading to the UK countryside this summer, you might have been faced with slow internet connections...