Building Audiences

With Strategic Focus, TikTok Creates New Opportunities for Cultural Institutions to Inspire Critical Thinking and Constructive Dialogue

In September of 2021, TikTok surpassed one billion users, making it the fastest-growing social media app. The video-sharing platform allows users to post short-form videos, which are then …

Museums Change Their Approach to Showing White Male Artists

Robin Pogrebin, Nytimes

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, business-as-usual gets a rethink. This article is part of our latest special section on Museums, which focuses on new artists, new …

A Long Way Home for ‘Looted’ Art Is Getting Shorter

Ted Loos, Nytimes

Curators at major museums are increasingly grappling with a thorny topic: restitution. This article is part of our latest special section on Museums, which focuses on new artists, new …

Happy Earth Day: One thing you can do to take climate action now

Rachel Read, Blooloop

It's hard to know where to start as an organisation trying to play a part in tackling climate change. As we wrap up after greenloop 22, we have one clear message that we would like to …

Museum sector enjoyed growing numbers of visitors in 2021

Bea Mitchell, Blooloop

The Art Newspaper has unveiled the 100 most popular art museums in the world in 2021 in its annual visitor figures survey, with the museum sector welcoming back growing numbers of …

Community and collaboration at the High Museum of Art

Lalla Merlin, Blooloop

Randall Suffolk has been the director of the High Museum of Art since 2015. Previously, he served as director of Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and as director of The Hyde …

Universal Hip Hop Museum Planning Metaverse Experience before Construction of Venue Completed

Cedric 'BIG CED' Thornton, Black Enterprise

The birthplace of hip-hop, the Bronx, NY, will have its own museum in approximately two years when the construction of the two-floor Universal Hip-Hop Museum is completed. According to …

How a Rapid-Response Pop-Up Inspired New Notions of Audience and Community

Jeni O’Malley & Maggie Schmidt

The events of 2020 and 2021 forced museums to innovate in ways and at a speed that would have been unthinkable prior. Our hope is that 2022 brings about a time of reflection, where we take …

Join the Conversation: Creative Aging and the Future of Museums

American Alliance of Museums

This is a recorded session from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. How can museums embrace the ‘Aging Revolution’ with purpose and intentionality? Learn from four museums …

After MAP, KidsPlay Children’s Museum Is Ready to Build Community Bridges

Mary Guilfoile, KidsPlay Board of Directors

Through the Museum Assessment Program, museums gain perspective on how to improve core areas of their operations, with a combination of guided self-reflection and close consultation with an …

Changing Expectations, Changing Experiences: Cultural Audiences in the Post‐pandemic World

This is a recorded session from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. Audience attitudes towards culture—including basic assumptions about what constitutes a cultural …

Engagement Strategies During Times of Low (or no) Attendance