INSIGHT: On Art & History Websites
Creating good website content is a team effort. On the technical and artistic end, developers and designers take the ideas and content they are given…
Redesigning a museum website is an exciting and engaging process. Reorganization and restructuring the information architecture is as satisfying as finally cleaning out and reorganizing…
In our last article, we explored ways museums organize educator content. We considered how, in thesame way that a museum must organize its physical space…
Drive up to any museum at mid morning or early afternoon, and you will probably see a collection of school buses parked outside. Inside, you…
While studying illustration at Rhode Island School of Design back in the late 1980’s, I encountered a show at the RISD Museum on the contemporary…
Your latest museum exhibition took months, maybe years, to plan. It may have come with a hefty price tag which, thankfully, enough businesses, individual donors,…
Museums are all about classification. The rise of the modern museum was highly influenced by the uber classifier himself, Francis Bacon. Whether you visit a…
I spend the better part of my days in WordPress, building prototypes, structuring content, and architecting the arrangement of museum websites. I recently discovered a…
No matter how you slice it, museum websites are complex technological systems. Today’s website platforms offer amazing capabilities such as easy content updating, ecommerce, searching…
Our previous article Anatomy of Museum Information Architecture analyzed some of the challenges of organizing content rich websites. Because museum websites are so chock full…
It is often said that “people don’t read on the web.” Not true. You’re reading these words after all. What is true is that people…
Imagine squashing a glorious Rembrant into a matchbox. A horrible thought! But when we display works of art in tiny rectangles on a website, we…
