WASHINGTON — Imagine a business-minded artist on deadline, working in a studio with an army of assistants to produce huge works. He’s savvy about publicity and about developments in technology that make it easier for him to get his images out into the world. He’ll agree to an impossible deadline […]

When a breathtaking Roman helmet was discovered by an amateur metal detectorist in Cumbria in 2010, it sparked a desperate fundraising campaign to try to keep it on public display. The Crosby Garrett helmet was one of the most spectacular Roman artefacts ever found in Britain, but because it was made of […]

situated in the spacious, light-filled le cavallerizze in milan’s leonardo da vinci national science and technology museum, no_code comprises a series of various types of shelters, taking visitors back to different origins through several geographical regions. from the large yurts on the mongolian steppes through to huts in west african villages, examples of […]

How does one collect virtual reality? The question can start to sound like a koan—or perhaps the title of an unpublished Philip K. Dick novella. Yet as the possibilities of virtual reality develop, and VR artwork along with them, the art world is forced to wrestle with how to sell […]

Today’s cultural industries face unprecedented, intense competition. During this year’s Two Sessions, China’s annual gathering of the national legislature and the top political advisory body, CPPCC member Wan Jie submitted his proposal of using high-tech means to digitalize cultural relics, comprehensively promoting the digital standard of Chinese museums, including the […]

In September 2018, the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) unveiled a new digital app called “My House of Memories,” which can be downloaded free of charge to a tablet or smartphone. This first-of-its-kind app features a carefully curated selection of more than 100 pages from the MNHS museum collection, each filled with an […]

First there was slow food, then slow journalism and now it’s the turn of slow art… It’s all part of Slow Art Day, an annual global event with some 200 institutions signed up, including Tate Modern, Ashmolean Museum, Photographer’s Gallery, Ulster Museum and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Orcas Island waterfront property was once cheap. Why? Because no one wanted land that couldn’t be farmed. Facts like this and more await every visitor to the Orcas Island Historical Museum, a place where families piece together ancestry, where memories are visited and archived and where island history comes alive, […]

In one experiment, O’Brien and his research team approached people near an exhibit on genetics at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, asking them to rate how much they enjoyed the exhibit and how much they think they’d enjoy perusing it again. While the subjects tended to predict that the […]

Museums and heritage attractions are competing for visitors with other leisure attractions more than ever and the more they know about their visitors or potential visitors the better informed they will be to offer the experience they want (and remove the ones they don’t want) The importance of visitor insight […]