From museums to theme parks, theatres to sports stadia and churches to casinos, AV technology has become an indispensable part of keeping us all enthralled and entertained, writes Paul Bray. At visitor attractions from museums to theme parks, cutting-edge AV is bending the reality of venues and helping to create […]

Building a loyal customer base is the foundation of many businesses. Getting that stability can be harder for museums, family-friendly activities and other attractions that tend to rely on tourists who are in and out of town just like that.

The global museums initiative Slow Art Day aims to be “counter-cultural to the smartphone and its growing dominance in culture, but also to blockbuster exhibits and the focus on absolute numbers”, says Phil Terry, the US e-commerce entrepreneur who founded the annual event in 2009. The idea germinated during Terry’s […]

Could Generation Y be the key to growing museum audiences? It’s a question that formed the basis of a panel on the third day of Abu Dhabi’s annual Culture Summit, where discussions continued to centre on issues around cultural and media engagement of new audiences, and specifically on the museums sector.

Museums play an important role in enhancing one’s understanding of history, but typically they attract only the cultural elite. The Louvre Abu Dhabi wants to transcend that barrier. Its vision is to become a global platform that brings together people from different countries, cultures, religions, across various age groups and from all walks of life.

To mark what would have been David Bowie’s 72nd birthday, the musical innovator is getting an innovative app. The David Bowie Is . . . augmented-reality app is based on the record-breaking museum exhibition of the same name, which toured the world before ending after a run at New York’s Brooklyn Museum […]

Remember the first time you used the handy-dandy map app on your smartphone? The magic of the blue-dot and step-by-step directions has undoubtedly changed the way we think about navigation, the physical world around us, and it has also given life to a new layer of location-aware experiences and conveniences.

″Start from his first season at Maryland, Kentucky, Texas A&M and the Alabama years,” Ken Gaddy, Director of the Paul W. Bryant Museum, told WBRC. He showed off the new touch screen that’s been up and running for more than a week now. The video board allows the museum to […]

At this time of year, when The Art Newspaper publishes its annual round-up of museum visitor figures, it is fascinating to see how venues around the world have performed. However, a “league table” only tells part of the complex story of how cultural institutions reach and engage audiences. Numbers are a […]

He showed off the new touch screen that’s been up and running for more than a week now. “You can go into a team picture, go to a row, pick a player. Bruce Stevens, there will be multiple pictures of the player,” Gaddy added. This video board is the highlight […]