A list of the European Museum Associations and other culture related associations. List to be continually updated
Museum AI Assistants
This white paper explores the development and implementation of an innovative AI Assistant designed to revolutionize the museum visitor experience. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies, such as natural language processing and machine learning, the AI Assistant offers personalized answers to visitors’ inquiries about art, science, and history.
Museums and Blockchain
Wow has this been a rabbit hole ! Working on a museum master plan and thought it would be cool to plan the museum architecture simultaneously with the digital experience using blockchain. Except, every-time I think I have gotten close to understanding the possibilities and capabilities of blockchain and museums I learn more. In a nutshell, the idea is to …
Virtual Museums: The Future of Museum Visits?
Today’s digitally-savvy millennials are accustomed to finding answers fast. They spend less time researching and more time taking action. To stay relevant, museums need to meet visitors where they are: in the digital space. Virtual museums offer an exciting — and cost-effective — a new way for visitors to experience the world’s finest art, artifacts, and natural history specimens from …
How to Create A Virtual Museum Tour That Generates Real Online Engagement
How to Create A Virtual Museum Tour That Generates Real Online Engagement PDF In the digital age, virtual museum tours are becoming increasingly commonplace. They combine the convenience of an online experience with the hands-on experience of a physical tour. However, many virtual tour websites are little more than a list of static images and descriptions with minimal interaction. Visitors …
Museums and a Metaphysical Crisis
Museums must support artists, audiences, and communities in supporting democracy and the sovereign rights of countries against authoritarian aggressors like Putin.
A Sign of Things to Come?
I am beginning to wonder if this is the beginning of the end for museums as public civil society organizations and museum workers. As I watch the news every night, it seems that the last thing anyone would want to do is to hire museum staff at this time. Those museum workers still employed are now doing the work of two to three former …
Museum Planning Process Diagram
A diagram of the overall museum planning process from start to finish. The diagram shows the process of starting a museum from the initial concept to museum opening day as a process diagram.
Includes free downloadable PDF.
Museums as Pathways to a Better Future – Part I
Museums have an active and important role to play in a more hopeful future. Together, museums and communities can work to counteract climate change, to train and prepare people for the new nature of work, and to be places of ethical and philosophical responsibility, building souls for our new future.
Museum Community and Institutional Values
In the past, we could estimate costs on a low-cost basis and then build museum business models to have operational costs and unearned income create a museum business plan.
The equations are no longer so simple. As an example, basing costs on non-union labor and minimum wage without benefits could be rejected by communities as not aligning with their personal values.