Technology

Museums and AI: Could Robots Be Your New Coworkers?

By Seema Rao

What is AI? How does it impact our lives every day? How are museums already using it? How might they use it in the future? This post, one of three on the topic of artificial intelligence in museums, introduces the technology and answers …
Turning Geo-Spatial Museum Data into a Soft Power Evaluation Tool

By Dr. Natalia Grincheva

One of the best things about working for the Alliance is the chance to meet interesting people who drop by our offices to chat about their work. One recent visitor was Dr. Natalia Grincheva, a research fellow in the Research Unit of Public …
Immersive Storytelling at The New York Times

By Maureen Towey

Watch this keynote from the two-day convening titled, "Immersion in Museums: AR, VR or Just Plain R?," hosted by the Detroit Institu…
How Immersion Makes Art Accessible

By By Multiple Authors

Watch this keynote from the two-day convening titled, "Immersion in Museums: AR, VR or Just Plain R?," hosted by the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit…
Unpacking Our Understanding of Immersion

By Ed Rodley

When Rob Stein, AAM’s Executive Vice President & Chief Program Officer, first approached the AAM Media and Technology Professional Network with the announcement that AAM and the Knight Foundation were planning to hold a series of …
What Mexican bugs have to do with Italian Paintings: How digital tools can be used to explore complex connections

By Gretchen Halverson

How is a red bug from Mexico so deeply tied to the representation of papal power in the late-1400s? First some background. It all starts with small red bugs, called cochineal, that live on cacti. They were first discovered by the Aztec and …
Exploring the Explosion of Museum AI

By Elizabeth Merritt

Here are five good reasons you should join me in Miami Nov 1-2 to explore how museums can use artificial intelligence to fuel their work (illustrated by recent news): AI can help users in and out of the museum explore collections in new …
Meet Me in Miami to Explore Museums and AI

By Elizabeth Merritt

Right now I’m working on the agenda for Museums and New Intelligences, the Alliance’s second Knight Foundation-funded mini-conference exploring museum applications of emerging technologies. I hope you will join me at the Pérez Museum …
The Latest from Museopunks!

By American Alliance of Museums

EPISODE 28 and 29: VIRTUALLY YOURS (PARTS 1 & 2) If there is a hot technology in museums right now, it is virtual reality–a technology sometimes credited as being the “ultimate empathy machine.” But can VR live up to the hype for …
Museopunks Episode 29: Virtually Yours (Part 2)

By Suse Anderson

If there is a hot technology in museums right now, it is virtual reality–a technology sometimes credited as being the “ultimate empathy machine.” But can VR live up to the hype for museums? What happens when VR technologies are used to …