CLEVELAND, Ohio – Five-year-old Nathan Cummings giggled delightedly as he swirled his fingers on an interactive screen at theCleveland Museum of Art, stirring up a virtual hurricane of Egyptian mummies and medieval gryphons made of photographs of objects in the museum’s permanent collection.

To keep museums refreshed and engaging, so much time, effort, and of course, money is poured into the creation of new exhibits, and the upkeep of existing ones.  You work hard to sell tickets to get people in the doors and enjoying these exhibits; phew! But looking at the bottom […]

Museums are pillars of culture and learning where people can explore different traditions, new ideas, and unique art forms. They’re also engaging and constantly changing. Curators know this, but potential visitors often don’t. That means many museums are missing out on repeat visitors and new visitors who don’t know about […]

Every International Museum Day has a different theme, and this year’s theme is “Museums as Cultural Hubs: The future of tradition.” In France, over 1000 museums will stay open late on May 18, and in Egypt, museums will be free all day. Museum-goers in the U.S. will be able to find events at places like […]

Salvador Dalí wasn’t exactly modest. And he’ll tell you so, too, face to face at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Here, the Spanish surrealist is alive and well, ready to talk to you in person about his art and his processes.

In a colorful group show at CAC Cincinnati, artists Calcagno Cullen, Amanda Curreri, and Lindsey Whittle invite visitors to join in their creative processes. CINCINNATI, Ohio — Intermedia artist Lindsey Whittle introduces her artist statement for Archive as Action — a three-woman show at Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati — with a recounting of the Hindu parable about […]

Organisations including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum will take part in a series of government-backed demonstrators creating immersive experiences for audiences of the future.

Minecraft is ten years old this year, and Microsoft is going big on the birthday celebrations – as is only right for one of gaming’s most enduring titles. As part of those festivities, it’s released a wonderful new map, featuring a huge interactive museum themed around the game’s first decade.

Fort Smith residents gathered Thursday (April 25) to discuss ideas of how to raise private funds to help complete the U.S. Marshals Museum in Fort Smith. About 60 people attended a discussion hosted by Believe in Fort Smith and the River Valley Economic Development Council on the topic. “We’re excited to help […]

The nature of small museums (limited staff, busy schedules) sometimes necessitates that we build an exhibit very quickly. We thought you’d like to see how we do that, so as I dismantled the temporary exhibit we built for our 2009 Garden Gala, I took pictures, which are presented below in […]