The Smithsonian venture into artificial intelligence to engage visitors is just one example in a rapidly moving trend mixing art and technology. Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used today by museums of all sizes worldwide, which employ it to develop everything from robots, chatbots and websites, to tools that help […]

Small art museums have been struggling in the recent years with attracting visitors and generating income. This blog provides you, as representative of an art museum, numerous applicable recommendations and some interesting and recent examples that can help you to attract more visitors.

Museums must find new ways to engage and excite visitors. The growing slew of digital entertainment options wrestling for our attention may be part of the problem for museums, but for many institutions, digital technology also offers a potential solution. Charged with the crucial task of preserving our past, museums […]

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.

The Museum, in partnership with Dell EMC and in association with Intel and Microsoft, today launches Dippy’s Naturenauts, to encourage children to venture outdoors and interact with the natural world. Designed with the concerns of parents in mind, the new technology means data usage will be limited, the app will work […]

Take this science museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. Certain nights it’s packed with live music, mix drinks and even performers. “Science on the Rocks is definitely adult swim it’s a place where adults can come and our theme is play like a kid party like an adult,” said Charla Fields […]

The abundance of competing activities offering value suited to my tastes presents an enormous barrier to museum attendance for millennials on its own. Add to that the request that I pay $15, $20, or even $30 just to enter, and without the promise of these same offers, forget it. I’m […]

The heritage industry is an inherently conservative business, trading as it does in the past, and as such it can be wary of change, and relatively slow to innovate. However, faced with a new generation of visitors who’ve grown up using smartphones, computers and various other gadgets demanding an interactive […]