What happens when you combine reality TV tactics with a traditional art collection? This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collection...

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 often think museums are like church--passionately loved by staff and devout audiences, irrelevant or off-putting to lapsed or uninterested...

I'm about to leave on a month-long trip to New Zealand and Australia. If you happen to be in the land of kiwis or kangaroos, you can fin...

Last week, the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) held their annual meeting in Ft. Worth, Texas. I participated in three s...

A month ago, I wrote about the pleasure of secret, exclusive places in cultural venues, and many of you wrote in with stories of your own. ...

Hi folks. This is just a quick post to update you on the status of my book on design for participation in cultural institutions. Three items...

Last week, Jim Richardson and I hosted MuseumNext , a 24-hour workshop for museum professionals focused on bringing new, wild museum projec...

Yesterday, I visited the Experimentarium , a science center just north of Copenhagen in Denmark. There were many intriguing exhibits and a n...

The afternoon of September 24 was hectic. I called in to participate in a radio show in Seattle , then zoomed downtown for meetings, after ...