As we’ve emerged from the pandemic and cultural venues began to open their doors again, the question on every museum professional’s lips has been: how should we blend the new world of at-home experiences with the physical museum experience?

If you are here because you are wondering how to get a job in a museum. Welcome! If you are here because of the wave of redundancies cutting a swathe through UK and international museums as a result of Covid-19, you are doubly welcome. Museum work can be extremely rewarding, […]

Could 2021 be the year that Virtual Reality goes mainstream? That’s what many people are predicting following the launch of the Oculus Quest 2 VR headset. This achieved five times projected pre-orders as bored consumers looked to escape the boredom of Covid-19 lockdowns. Museums have pivoted towards digital during the […]

Having a collection is an incredibly important thing.  “About a third of people in the UK collect something.” The Guardian reports, “Their reasons and manner vary hugely.” They suggest motivations might range from the comfort of accumulating belongings, or the sense of connection that objects can offer – such as collecting […]

Museums have always been upheld as hubs of knowledge and culture; places where you can expand your understanding of the world around you. But it would be true to say that we sometimes overlook the other benefits that come with broadening our minds, tickling our senses and adding variety to […]

Augmented reality is the process of using technology to superimpose images, text or sounds on top of what a person can already see. It uses a smartphone or tablet to alter the existing picture, via an app. The user stands in front of a scene and holds up their device. […]

We museums are generous. We collect and exhibit objects and spread their stories, often to make lessons of the past tangible and to inspire people around us. Many museum objects have digital counterparts: entire collections and their stories can be found on museum websites. For free! This approach was questioned […]

In an effort to alleviate the eco-anxiety and eco-grief that visitors experience after seeing images related to ocean pollution, museums have begun to curate aquarium-like displays of living marine life to help visitors picture what clean, healthy and sustainable oceans can look like.

Although TikTok is still considered to be the new social media kid on the block, it’s incredible growth in recent years makes it hard to remember a time when the video looping platform wasn’t in our lives. With more than a billion downloads to its name, TikTok has not only […]

Working to make museums accessible to a bigger, broader and more varied audience is something that we can all agree on. But as we are regularly reminded, not every disability or learning difficulty is visible and it isn’t always easy to cater for everyone’s needs in a single, easy-to-implement way.