I first read about Story House Belvédère on Jasper Visser’s excellent blog, The Museum of the Future . This small, startup cultural projec...

The quest for relevance begins with knowing your audience. Who are the people with whom you want to connect? What are their dreams, their im...

A farmer says he has had the same ax his whole life--he only changed the handle three times and head two times. Does he have the same ax?...

Recently, we've been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig u...

I just finished listening to This American Life 's incredible  two-part series about gun violence at Harper High School in Chicago. It...

When I was a teenager, I was enthralled by interactive fiction. I loved the idea of the web as an infinite landscape, with stories and poe...

In 1990, educator and cultural critic Neil Postman described a museum as "an answer to a fundamental question: what does it mean to be ...

A few weeks ago, a group of San Francisco-based writers had a crazy idea: they would make a magazine in 48 hours . And not just any magazine...

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people writ...

This week at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand, a librarian stood up and said, “one of the great challenges of this sector is to ma...

I'm not a fan of Olympic gymnastics; I don't really know enough about the sport to be blown away by the action. This summer, howeve...

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game ...

What if witty cultural commentators reviewed museums the way they do music and restaurants? If Anthony Lane turned his cutting tongue from ...

On Tuesday, I'll be chairing a session at the AAM (American Association of Museums) conference called Eye on Design: Inspiration from O...