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 …
Category: Design
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 …
Museums and Mega Menus
Museum websites are chock full of content. Not only do they offer standard business information such as location, contact, and …
Conquering The Illusion of Communication
George Bernard Shaw once said that, “the single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” …
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 …
Museum Design Workshop
Every museum is unique. Each has a specific collection that no other museum can claim and the stories about this …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Visual Display of Museum Impact
All museums aim to make an impact. Many resources are poured into preserving, protecting, and promoting a museum’s collections, programs, …
