by Mark Walhimer | Apr 16, 2020 | COVID-19, Future of Museums
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1914-15, Maison Dom-Ino (Dom-Ino House), drawing The sooner we forget about the museums of the past (two weeks ago) the better we will all handle this crisis. The museums that we all knew of March 2020 and before are gone, never to return...
by Mark Walhimer | Oct 4, 2018 | Future of Museums, Museum Trends, Working in museums
More museum freelancers are using co-working Over the last couple of years I have been working on a small start-up museum. The project has included Museum Master Planning, Building Renovation, Museum Exhibition Design and Project Management of the exhibition...
by Mark Walhimer | Jun 13, 2018 | Future of Museums, Museum Customer Experience, Museum Placemaking
Emotionally connecting with museum visitors, being a civic anchor, community gathering place, and helping to define community values. Placemaking is a combination of both the individual and community connections. In 2015 I wrote the book Museums 101 a book of museum...
by Mark Walhimer | Aug 27, 2017 | Emerging Technologies, Future of Museums, Interactive, Museum Digital Revolution, Museum HCI, Museum Trends
1. Museum Virtual Reality (VR) is an immersive experience, requiring a headset. 2. Museum Augmented Reality (AR) adds an effect to an experience not requiring a headset. 3. While Virtual Reality (VR) is more immersive although it requires more hardware (headset),...
by Mark Walhimer | Jul 15, 2017 | Emerging Technologies, Future of Museums, Museum Digital Revolution, Museum HCI
Museums are in the midst of a digital revolution, changing the way visitors interact with content. Human-computer Interaction (HCI) is a key component of the content exchange between museum and visitor. Organizations and Conferences Museums and the Web Tangible Media...
by Mark Walhimer | Jun 23, 2017 | Future of Museums, Museum Planning, Museum Strategic Planning, Starting A Museum
I am working on a new museum project in Georgia, a small local history museum. The project is a bit of an experiment, trying out “Lean Museum Start-Up”. Or in other words “what is the least expensive and fastest way to start a museum?”....
