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The smell of success: how scent became the must-have interpretative tool
In the beautifully lit interior of Chiswick House (pictured, top), cellist Rebecca Knight paused in her playing and put her hand to her nose. It was a pre-arranged sign for the audience …
The ICA San Francisco: a new type of museum
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) San Francisco is a groundbreaking, non-collecting art museum. It will open in September 2022 in the city's Dogpatch district. Located in an 11,000 …
The world’s most sustainable museums
The mission of the National Museum of the American Indian, in partnership with Native peoples and their allies, is to foster a richer shared human experience through an understanding of …
A pivotal moment: the Natural History Museum at COP26 and beyond
How staff influencers can help museums make more content
By Maxwell Blowfield "Museums were the content platform of the 19 th century." So said former UK culture minister, Ed Vaizey on an episode of his podcast The Vaizey View earlier this …
Natural History Museum sets science-based carbon reduction target
The Natural History Museum (NHM) has become the world's first museum to set a science-based carbon reduction target, developed in line with the Paris Agreement, an international treaty …
Rotterdam set to launch world’s first fully accessible art depot
NHM reveals economic benefits of digitising 80 million objects
The Natural History Museum aims to digitise 80 million objects in its collection, revealing that the economic benefits of digitisation are 'at least ten times greater than the c…
The Strong gives children in hospital robotic access to museum
Telling overlooked stories at New-York Historical Society
The New-York Historical Society Museum and Library has announced a $140m expansion of its building on Central Park West. This will add more than 70,000 square feet of space to the …
Getty launches YouTube series for ‘art curious’ audiences
The Getty has launched a YouTube series called 'Becoming Artsy', available to stream weekly and hosted by the museum's senior creative producer Jessie Hendricks. 'Becoming Artsy' was …
Van Abbemuseum invites guests to see, touch, hear and smell art
The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands has opened a multi-sensory exhibition featuring 120 artworks that can be seen, touched, heard and smelled. 'Delinking and Relinking' at the …