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How Portsmouth Museum Took Art to the Parks, Cemeteries and Communities That Needed It Most

What does meaningful community engagement look like when you strip away the grand budgets and the elaborate programming? For Portsmouth Museum & Art Gallery, it...

When the Museum Becomes a Space for Emotions: Inside the Biosphère’s Emolab

Montréal’s Biosphère has created an exhibition dedicated entirely to climate emotions — and the story of how it came to exist is almost as compelling...

What Happens When Museums Turn Mindfulness Inward

The Getty has spent years helping visitors slow down and connect with art. Now it is applying those same practices to the people who work...

How the Vancouver Art Gallery Is Turning Art Into a Prescription for Wellbeing

By partnering with Canada’s national nature prescription programme, the Vancouver Art Gallery has created something genuinely new: a social prescribing initiative that brings art, nature,...

Beyond Sustainability: How IMMA Is Learning to Think Like a Living System

What if the goal wasn’t to reduce a museum’s impact, but to actively improve the conditions for life? At the Irish Museum of Modern Art,...

How the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Made Sustainability Everyone’s Job

Through a transdisciplinary internal team called GU-Zero, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has turned environmental action from a specialist function into a shared institutional practice —...

How Reykjavík Art Museum Gave 600 Teenagers a Voice on Climate Change

By combining a revived community programme with time-based art and a carefully designed welcome, the Reykjavík Art Museum found a way to reach the teenagers...

Who Gets to Tell the Story? Co-Producing Digital Meaning in Museums

How the Great North Museum: Hancock and Beacon Films are reshaping what museum interpretation can look like — and who gets to make it. What...

How the National Gallery of Art Used Video to Take an Exhibition Beyond Its Walls

A multi-platform video strategy built around artist Elizabeth Catlett shows how documentary storytelling, time-lapse filmmaking, and digital installation can turn an exhibition into a living,...

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...

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,...

Virtual & Augmented Reality

How Museums are using Augmented Reality

Imagine unlocking hidden histories or revealing invisible artworks in everyday places. These are just some of the possibilities that museums are exploring with Augmented Reality,...

Preserving Belarusian Jewish Heritage with VR: The Belarus Shtetl Project

How can we preserve a cultural heritage that exists only in scattered memories, fading photographs, and fragmented stories? The Belarus Shtetl Project offers an innovative...

Visions of Nature: NHM’s Futuristic Mixed-Reality Exhibition Offers a Glimpse into 2125

The Natural History Museum in London is set to unveil an innovative mixed-reality experience, Visions of Nature, on 24 October. This cutting-edge exhibition, developed in...

A Shared Secret: How the Vienna Clock Museum Embraced AR Gaming

In an ambitious step to broaden its appeal, the Vienna Clock Museum has unveiled an augmented reality (AR) escape game entitled “A Shared Secret –...

How a Museum Put History on the School Menu

What if the most effective way to get students engaging with history wasn’t a lesson, a worksheet, or even a museum visit — but lunch?...

What Happens When You Give Teenagers the Keys to Your Museum?

Here’s a thought experiment: What if your museum handed over its TikTok account to a bunch of teenagers—no filters, no approvals, just… full access? If...

English Heritage’s Shout Out Loud: Supporting Creative Skills for Young People

If you ask most people what heritage organisations do, they will probably point you toward the past, stories carved in stone, artefacts under glass, timelines...

Artificial Intelligence

Bringing a Museum Collection to Life with Conversational AI

Inside the London Transport Museum’s AI Digital Poster project — a practical case study in using conversational AI to make museum collections speak, in 60...

How Cincinnati Museum Center Built an AI Learning Community

Most museum staff don’t need to be convinced that AI is changing things. What they need is somewhere safe to figure out what that actually...

When Sculptures Speak: How AI Gave a Voice to the Gardens of Versailles

A partnership between Ask Mona, the Palace of Versailles, and OpenAI has turned a walk through one of the world’s most visited gardens into a...

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 Can Museums Foster Empathy and Social Change?

In an era marked by division and misunderstanding, how can museums become spaces for fostering empathy and driving social transformation? The Empathy Museum stands as...

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...

How Can Museums Change Lives With Apprenticeships?

Nestled in the heart of Baltimore, The Peale, Baltimore’s Community Museum, stands as a testament to the city’s rich history and its ongoing commitment to...

Museum Marketing

What Happens When You Set an Artwork Free? The Sainsbury Centre’s Day Release Project

What if a museum’s most powerful act wasn’t bringing people through its doors, but sending its artworks out into the world instead? At the Museum...

Five Ideas Museums Can Use to Transform Their Social Media

Here’s a question worth asking: What does a cardboard banana have to do with digital transformation at a national museum? The answer, it turns out,...

How Manchester Museum Turned a Spider Crab Into a Social Media Powerhouse

If you stroll down Oxford Road in Manchester, you may notice an eight-legged sentinel lurking behind glass—looming, slightly menacing, and, as it turns out, unexpectedly...

How to Create a Viral Video for a Museum

What does it really take to create a viral video for a museum? Is it about the object on screen, the quick editing, the platform,...

Transforming Crowdfunding Backers into Lifelong Museum Supporters

Did you know that museum crowdfunding is more than just a way to raise funds? For many institutions, it’s the start of building meaningful, lasting...

Auckland Museum’s Membership Masterclass: Innovation Amid Adversity

Launching a new initiative is never easy, but doing so during a global pandemic is an entirely different challenge. Christiane Pracht, Membership Manager at Auckland...

How Museums Can Start a Donor Circle: Lessons from Sweden’s National Museum

How do you bring forgotten masterpieces back to life? For Sweden’s National Museum in Stockholm, the answer lies in an innovative donor initiative that bridges...

From Fandom to Funds: How the Tank Museum is Transforming Museum Fundraising

Is traditional philanthropy enough for museums to thrive in the modern era? At the Tank Museum in Dorset, the answer lies in a bold shift...

Why We Need Museums Now More Than Ever — The Importance of Museums

In today’s uncertain times, museums can act as an anchor in the storm. To those who aren’t as passionate about the power of museums as...

School Groups, GDP, and Our Community Interdependence

“No one thought it strange that a boy and a girl, each carrying a book bag and an instrument case and who would normally be...

Do Children Dream of AI Sheep in Museums? (not nightmares)

To begin, two recent stories I’ve experienced about the (non-linear, unpredictable, anything but simple) relationship between children and youth with AI in the museum context...

Museums as “hyperinstitutions”

The technological advances of our time and the rapidly accelerating development of artificial intelligence should have the undivided attention of the museum world. The potential...

Ten Creative Programme Ideas That Museums Can Offer Adults

Why should kids have all the fun? Museums have an incredible potential to not only educate adults, but also engage and entertain them. Through using...

Paws and Patrons: How Museums Can Welcome Pet Owners

What do Airbnb, Instagram, and your local museum have in common? Potentially, a growing audience of dog lovers who can’t bear to leave their furry...

Thrill-Seeking at the Museum: Embracing the ‘Bravecation’ Boom

Travel habits are changing, and many people want exciting, hands-on experiences wherever they go. Museums have long opened doors to different worlds, and there is...

From Loneliness to Belonging: 5 Trends are Hacking the Museum Experience

Museums face a world shaped by rapid technological advances, shifting social priorities, and a growing focus on well-being. These changes are opportunities for museums to...

Exhibition Design and Interpretation

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...

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?...

10 Tips for Writing Effective Museum Exhibit Labels

Exhibit labels are a vital component of any museum experience. They serve as the bridge between the objects on display and the visitors, offering context,...

New Ideas for Museum Audio Tours: Trends Shaping 2025

Imagine stepping into a museum where the walls whisper stories, artefacts come alive with sound, and every corner offers a personalised journey through history. Welcome...