INSIGHT: On Art & History Websites
Every so often I’m in line checking out at the grocery store when the cashier asks, “would you like to add one or two dollars…
Behind the scenes at your local museum, curators, researchers, and historians make fascinating discoveries that deepen our understanding of our world’s greatest cultural treasures. This…
In recent years, museums have made great strides to seamlessly integrate their collections with their existing websites. Cost-prohibitive technical limitations have been replaced by the…
In preparation for a report we’re putting together on museums’ digital technologies, I scoured over 1,300 museum websites, asking each one the same question: Do…
A website is a powerful marketing tool. It can be equipped with sophisticated marketing systems designed to convert visitors into customers, or in the case…
FROM Back in December, my colleague Eric Holter asked in his monthly newsletter if a museum’s blog really matters. (Spoiler: It really does). One of…
For many museums, one substantial type of essential work that is often repurposed in some form on the website is the exhibition catalogue. These 200+…
When contemplating the future of museum software, just consider how radically all software has changed in just the past decade or so. Remember when installing…
Back in the day when production assets actually took up physical space, keeping track of these materials was a bulky yet simple process. I began…
All museums aim to make an impact. Many resources are poured into preserving, protecting, and promoting a museum’s collections, programs, and resources. All in the…
Your museum puts a lot of thought into how to communicate with donors through traditional means, like donation boxes in the physical space, galas and…
It’s probably not an overstatement to say that search engines have entirely changed the modern world. I recently made an off-hand comment about the Yellow…
