House Museums as we know them are in need of a rebellion.
From Visitors to Users: Museum Practice in a Time of Social Media and the Neoliberal Market Economy
Over the last decades, museums worldwide have become more and more invested in creating an online ‘voice’ on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and…
Hands Reaching Out From The Soil
Aesthetic and unsettling – two words that accurately describe “Sankofa” (2017) by Dutch designer Nynke Koster. The colorful rug made of cast rubber fingers might seem comical…
A Possible Treasure Hunt?
Digitization of cultural heritage seems to be a magic wand which has brought revolutionary changes in the cultural heritage realm. One can make a virtual…
Sense and Sensibility: Is it right to publish photographs of human remains on the web?
Human remains are an important source of knowledge for archaeologists, which can reveal lots of information about people’s heritage and lifestyle. It is not unusual…
More to come…
Very soon the 2017/2018 students will take over this website… Picture from Marijos ir Jurgio Šlapelių namas-muziejus via Europeana.
How to get Millennials into your Museum
By Amanda Smith Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, Flikr, Pintrest, Tumblr, YouTube and LinkedIn – all popular social media sites used predominantly by the 18-30…
Take a risk.
By Elspeth Hunter The boundaries of what constitutes a museum, a gallery, a library or an archive are shifting – each are bleeding into one…
How will museums of the future look?
By Claire Farbrace As a keen museum-goer, I was thrilled to move to Amsterdam and explore the wide range of museums on offer in and…
The touristic terms
By Bram de Jong When I wandered through Ljubljana during a holiday last summer I did not come prepared…