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What’s to come from Instagram museums?

If future archaeologists were to dig up remnants of present-day America, they would likely conclude that our civilization worshipped food and drinks as deities. Their evidence: the culinary-themed museums proliferating around the country. What began in 2016 with the Museum of Ice Cream has become a full-fledged cultural trend that […]

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Memes Have Finally Made It to the Museum

There is something delightfully uncanny about entering the “Two Decades of Memes” exhibit in Queens’ Museum of the Moving Image, and seeing a crisp, supersized print of the famed Expanding Brain hanging on the wall. As citizens of the internet, we exclusively consume memes through ravioli-sized jpegs stretched out on our phones […]

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The Museum Experience as Digital First — Strategic approaches to content, conversation and audience engagement

This talk is about identifying specific challenges that come with a Digital First perspective on museum experiences, and I will, through three short cases try to illustrate how the Nordiska museet/The Nordic Museum, with its most recent digital strategy, has started to address some of the challenges that come with shifting focus. […]

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The Museums of Instagram

Candytopia, the pop-up exhibit with locations in Manhattan and San Francisco, shares some characteristics with Disneyland—a costumed guide, manufactured fantasy landscapes, giddy kids—but there are no rides. In Candytopia, there’s very little to do but pose, and that’s what everyone’s doing. The installation is organized around a series of rooms with […]

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