INSIGHT: On Art & History Websites
The holidays are here, and museums are some of the best places to find unique gifts for loved ones. Purchasing a gift from a museum…
Browsing a website has a lot in common with setting foot in a museum, especially when it comes to navigation. While one museum visitor may…
A visitor to a content-rich museum website, like a customer at a bookstore, can easily spend long periods of time simply browsing around. For the…
The most enjoyable presidential debate I ever watched was between two candidates who had been dead for nearly two hundred years: John Adams and Thomas…
In Beyond the Bake Sale: Fundraising for Local History Organizations, fundraising expert Jamie Simek has written a practical and thorough guide designed to help small…
In its December 1995 issue, Art in America ran a cover story about a new technology that was beginning to transform the world of museums:…
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…
INSIGHT: On Art & History Websites
The most enjoyable presidential debate I ever watched was between two candidates who had been dead for nearly two hundred years: John Adams and Thomas…
In Beyond the Bake Sale: Fundraising for Local History Organizations, fundraising expert Jamie Simek has written a practical and thorough guide designed to help small…
In its December 1995 issue, Art in America ran a cover story about a new technology that was beginning to transform the world of museums:…
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…
