Richel Cuyler

Richel Cuyler joined the staff in April 2021 as the Cultural Heritage Technical Developer to the Advancing Pathways for Long-Term Collaboration grant, a project connecting the Dartmouth Library and the Hood Museum to advance significant cross-institutional and community-centered collaboration grounded in Dartmouth’s Native American and Indigenous Arctic collections.

Richel is a Dartmouth alumna who worked in the Hood’s education department during her senior year. That experience propelled her to spend over a decade in New York City working in education, event programming, and fundraising in museums and cultural institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Rubin Museum, and Brooklyn Academy of Music.

As part of the Digital Platforms, Media, & Archives team, Richel builds interactives and digital kiosks to help contextualize and extend learning for the Hood’s collections and exhibitions using platforms like Exhibit.so, StoryMaps, and WordPress.

Richel also researches, tests, and advises on software for implementation, and helps plan future technology adoption at the museum.

Richel Cuyler will be speaking at the MuseumNext Digital Summit 2026 :

A Digital Roundtrip at The Hood Museum

Have you ever seen an Assyrian relief brought to life with color? In our exhibition “Stone, Sand, and Clay: Connecting Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean,” we use projection mapping software to add colors suggested by curatorial research to a 2,000-year-old Assyrian relief that demonstrates how the relief might have looked in its original location. Visitors can also digitally journey with the relief from the palace to its current location at The Hood Museum in StoryMaps, and view a suite of additional digital resources that help to provide more information about the reliefs in our collection.