During the 2020-2021 school year, the global pandemic has had a profound impact on lives and human activities, posing new challenges to the field of education. Within this complex context, Europeana and European Schoolnet (EUN) joined forces to help formal and non-formal educators find new ways of integrating digital cultural heritage into […]

A Grand Museum of the Internet – an institution dedicated to preserving and elevating the artifacts of the defining culture-maker of our time – would just make the web even less about its users, and even more homogenizing and exclusionary

Participants cite positive opportunities for remote working, interviews and digital offerings. Findings from a consultation by Accentuate, a specialist disability programme within the organisation Screen South, offer new insights into disabled people’s engagement with museums as both workers and audiences.

Physical closures and capacity reductions due to COVID-19 forced museums and galleries to find new ways to showcase content and programming to a greater audience, accelerating the shift towards digital. While articles abound about the qualities that make hybrid programs successful, less has been written about how cultural workers have changed the way […]

Patrice is a small, sleek robot that is opening up the International Spy Museum to hospitalized children and young adults who can’t physically get to the building. This has proved to be especially important during the pandemic, when museum staff can’t visit children in hospitals.

Envision a group of schoolchildren standing before you, giddy with anticipation and excitement. In front of them are two elongated rectangular wooden doors, which, once opened, will transport them to another time. The doors swing open and laid out before the students is a massive space with star-studded domed ceilings […]

Virtual museum tours allow you to experience being inside museums, looking at the exhibits, and walking their hallways through digital displays. Think of it like an MMORPG where you get to move your character within a virtual world. Some of the exhibits are interactive—which means you can click on items, and they […]

Virtual docents are trained on how to interact with museum goers through a screen, and are placed at three popular stations around the Udvar Hazy Center.  Jim Preston/National Air and Space Museum If you’ve never visited the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, you won’t fully comprehend […]

On a virtual field trip, students search their screens for signs of movement as they try to spot the elusive macroinvertebrates lurking in a pond water sample. A grid appears over the screen with the numbers one through six in each box, so that when students spot something, they can […]

The top 45 museums in the US hold endowments of more than $40bn in aggregate. Unfortunately, [most] museums are invested in the very same types of companies—tobacco, weapons manufacturing, and fossil fuels—that are frequently protested in connection with their controversial donors. But it does not have to be that way. […]