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Chris Newell: First Wabanaki Leader of the Abbe Museum
Ian Elsner describes Museum Archipelago (@museum_go on Twitter) as “a tiny podcast guiding you through the rocky landscape of museums.” As a devoted follower of the podcast, I was delighted when Ian recently interviewed Chris Newell, the … -
“Pay As You Stay” – an alternative pricing model for museums?
This year’s TrendsWatch cites buy-ahead pricing as one tool for enhancing revenue and managing attendance. In today’s guest post, Managing Director Tom Schoessler tells us how the Weserburg Museum tried flipping that model, charging … -
Beyond the Block: Empowering Incarcerated Artists
As I noted in TrendsWatch 2017, museums’ communities are being buffeted by the economic, cultural, and political fallout from current inequities in the justice system. Increasingly, museums are being called on to play a role in addressing … -
Designing an AI Voice for the Museum
This is the second of two posts exploring IRIS+, an AI chatbot at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In part one, Daniel Morena, founder and creative technologist at of 32Bits, described the program, how it operates, and how … -
So, What Do You Do? Meet some museum professionals with 21st-century jobs.
This article originally appeared in the January/February issue of Museum magazine. Who could have foreseen—just two decades ago—that museums would one day employ game designers, digitization specialists, or social media managers? New … -
Cafeteria Connections: Some food for thought and thought for food
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2015 edition of the Museum magazine. We have become a nation of food-obsessed individuals. A glance at television’s offerings reveals that we revel in watching food competitions where …
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