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Discovering Community Through Augmented Reality
The Arizona State Museum (ASM) recently led an exciting project that transcends traditional boundaries—curatorial, geographical, and technological. Discovering Community in the Borderlands …
Toward Equity in Metadata: How Sandy Spring Museum Is Going beyond Reparative Cataloging
Equity: freedom from bias or favoritism Metadata: data that describes and provides context for digital items, which in turn helps users find and discover these resources. Though Black and …
The Longevity Strategy Designing Sustainable Digital Content
Museums often create great digital content that lasts only until the funding runs out or the point person moves on. How can we create digital platforms and programs that will last? This …
Putting AI to Work in the Museum
This recording is from the Future of Museums Summit held November 1-2, 2023. How can artificial intelligence amplify the power and impact of museums? Hear from staff and researchers using …
Sealed with a Kiss: A Q&A on Gallery Belvedere’s Multimillion-Dollar NFT
I’ve long been interested in the ways that today’s cultural organizations go about raising the necessary funds to support their work—especially non-traditional approaches. The most recent …
10 Tips for Creating an Engaging Museum Website
The American Alliance of Museums offers the following information from Francesca Parker, Director of Project Management at Purple Rock Scissors. The information shared here is based on the …
Empowering Provenance Research in the Age of Big Data and (Re)Generative Artificial Intelligence
Six years ago, I started a project called ReMasterpieces that used some of the leading AI techniques of that time to recreate works of art that were stolen and subsequently lost or …
The Six Tools for Effective Digital Design
In 2020, after a fifteen-year run working in museums on digital engagement projects, I decided to start my own consultancy. In the process of building it, I often heard from people familiar …
Techno-skepticism: Rethinking the Costs and Benefits of Digital Technology
The night before my flight to Denver for #AAM2023, I went over my slides for the annual presentation on TrendsWatch. The talk was formatted around the chapters of the latest report (access …
Museums and YouTube: You’ll never believe these 3 tips to improve your channel
When the pandemic forced museums to make a hard pivot to online content, the importance of reaching audiences beyond gallery walls became clearer than ever. As The Historic New Orleans …
Steering Your Museum’s Search for a Volunteer Management System
This tipsheet was developed by Elisa Kosarin, CVA, a Volunteer Engagement Specialist at TwentyHats, and Abbey Earich, Lead Volunteer Coordinator for the Smithsonian Office of Visitor …
Reboot
The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 threw museums into uncharted territory, simultaneously rendering their physical spaces inaccessible and triggering a mass shift to the …
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