Kate McGroarty's month living at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is over. The young actress and teacher beat out 1,500 oth...

Spending time in Europe, I'm reminded how complicated it gets when you have to interpret exhibits for a multi-lingual audience. Here in ...

How do you find your way around a multi-faceted museum? Do you interrogate the map? Create a plan for yourself? Get deliciously lost? I spen...

Since I posted my " how I got here " post earlier this week, I've received lots of emails and comments from museum professiona...

Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0 blog, and it got me thinking about how and why I first started doing this. People--especially...

One of the questions that comes up most frequently when I talk with folks about participation is: what should we do with the things that vis...

I’ve long been interested in the intersection between maker culture and museums . On September 25 and 26, the New York Hall of Science (NYSC...

The folks at the New Media Consortium have released their annual Horizon Report , a roundup of up-and-coming technologies relevant to museu...

Are museum visitors "customers?" Are library patrons "shopping?" The retail analogy falls in and out of fashion in cultu...

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...