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Logical Facets and Filters for Museum Events Calendars

Don’t present non-mutually-exclusive categories. Don't force selections between “Workshops,” “Educators,” “Free,” and “Weekend Events.”

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Calling Visitors to Action on Museum Websites

A visitor to a content-rich museum website, like a customer at a bookstore, can easily spend long periods of time ...

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What Did Museum Websites Look Like in the ’90s? (…and What Can We Learn from Them Today?)

In its December 1995 issue, Art in America ran a cover story about a new technology that was beginning to ...

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Museums and Mega Menus

Museum websites are chock full of content. Not only do they offer standard business information such as location, contact, and ...

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Conquering The Illusion of Communication

George Bernard Shaw once said that, “the single biggest problem in communicationis the illusion that it has taken place.” Art ...

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The Long and Short of Museum Blogs

During the Museums and the Web 2019 conference, we, along with Sara Goss and Rachel Clark from the Michigan History ...

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Museum Design Workshop

Every museum is unique. Each has a specific collection that no other museum can claim and the stories about this ...

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Anatomy of Museum Information Architecture

One of the persistent challenges of museum website design and content strategy stems from the vast quantity of content that ...

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Sites In the Service of Museum Scholarship

Behind the scenes at your local museum, curators, researchers, and historians make fascinating discoveries that deepen our understanding of our ...

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A Case Study of Deep Zoom with OpenSeadragon

In recent years, museums have made great strides to seamlessly integrate their collections with their existing websites. Cost-prohibitive technical limitations ...

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