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Things That Scare Us
The Smithsonian compiled a website full of their museums' creepiest artifacts and exhibi…
The story behind the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium’s eerie welcome back video
The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium decided to take a very different tactic to it's welcome video. Ever heard a Verdi piece played on an 1888 musi…
Michigan Has A Nun Doll Museum and…It’s Creepy
With over 525 dolls and 20 mannequins, the Doll Museum at The National Shrine of the Cross in the Woods seeks to preserve Catholic her…
Museums reveal their creepiest objects in Twitter battle
From fish-tailed monkey "mermaids" to creepy dolls, museums showcase their most terrifying collections on Tw…
Scared to Death: The Thrill of the Horror Film
Scared to Death: The Thrill of Horror Film includes more than 50 props and costumes from popular films and television …
America’s 10 Creepiest Body Horror Museums
The Travel.com blog compiled this list of some truly creepy body horror mu…
The 5 Creepiest Museums Around the World
Ever visited a museum with medical oddities, dead bodies, or scariest of all hundreds of ventriloquist dummies?Then you've probably been to one of these creepy mu…
Museums Challenged to Showcase ‘Creepiest Objects’ Deliver Stuff of Nightmares
When the National Museums of Scotland sent out the call for museums to post the creepiest objects in their collections on Twitter, they stepp…
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 …
“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 …
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 …
Can civic museums become catalysts for social change?
Civic museums are the local institutions dotted in cities, towns and villages across the country that focus on the relationship between their place and its people. Without the global …
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External Pressures on Museum-Going: A 2023 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Data Story
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This visual Data Story is based on findings from the 2023 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers, a national survey of American museum visitors from AAM and Wilkening Consulting. Every year, the …
Tips for Creating Accessible Museums: Universal Design and Universal Design for Learning
The American Alliance of Museums offers the following information from Violet Rose Arma, Curatorial Assistant & Administrative Support, University of Arizona Museum of Art. The …
Leisure-Time Shifts in a (Mostly) Post-Pandemic World: A 2023 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers Data Story
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There have been a lot of changes in how people live their lives over the past five years, largely (but not exclusively) due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While some of these shifts may benefit …