On October 20, a young woman named Kate will move into Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and live there for a month. Kate was se...

Let's face it: there are people who are into coupons and there are people who are not. For people who love them, the coupon page is like...

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Audience segmentation and research has become a hot topic in museums, especially when it comes to crafting appealing offerings that are cust...

Let's say you want to mock up an exhibition or event layout quickly to get a feel for the space. You want it to be dimensioned, but it d...

Jasper Visser and his colleagues at the not-yet-physically-open National Historisch Museum of the Netherlands have impressed me with their ...

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living mu...

Everyone always talks about the learning value of failure. It's hard, it's painful, but you gain more than you lose--at least, that...

When it comes to user participation in cultural institutions and the arts, it's popular to launch projects that pit visitors against exp...

When I was in Taiwan, I heard again and again from museum professionals: "We are very conservative in Taiwanese museums. We're not ...