Museums around the world are now incorporating digital technology within physical gallery spaces to cater to younger, more digitally-oriented generations. Tech-enhanced exhibits offer interactive, engaging, and more meaningful experiences for visitors. These immersive exhibitions allow visitors to go beyond physical limitations and place objects in context to become experiences that […]

With over 2 billion smartphone owners on the planet and most Americans spending at least 40% of their day using devices for things like grocery shopping, running errands, and even getting their dog walked, tech is here to stay. It’s everywhere -including museums and cultural institutions. And it is changing the way people engage […]

Museums today face both overt and subtle challenges. Institutional missions must be negotiated with shifting demographics, evolving visitor expectations, funding realignment, and ever-escalating technologies. Ideally, this leads to a richer and more memorable visitor experience, and encourages visitors to become museum advocates. But often, conflicting goals and strategies can make […]

The Putnam’s textile collection, also called its clothing or costume collection, is stored in a large, crowded storage room within the museum. It consists of literally thousands of items, mostly garments, worn by men, women and children, as well as all types of accessories, such as hats, hat pins, underwear, […]

With Intel’s advanced data-processing on the Sansar Social VR platform, the Smithsonian has been able to accelerate the digital 3D capture, preservation, and distribution of artefacts in its collections, so that students, educators, and the broader public can virtually access and engage with the museum’s collections from anywhere in the […]

Tokyo’s MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM has opened its doors and invites visitors to immerse themselves in its psychedelic installations. Inside the museum’s 107,000 square-foot space, patrons can literally get inside artworks and interact with them.