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What are the latest strategies for connecting with local communities? How can partnerships fuel your success? Get the inside scoop on these topics at the Museums + Heritage Show, as one of its chairs Colin Mulberg gives a preview: #MandHShow

The McLean County Museum of History is using a Museums for America grant to increase its storage capacity by 50%. The project will not only enable the #museum to better preserve its significant art and #localhistory collection, but it will also increase the collection's accessibility and provide hands-on learning opportunities to emerging museum professionals. Learn more about the project ➡️ https://lnkd.in/exsmPWnR Discover the #IMLSgrant ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eDt6FcmN

Employee friendly, collaborative effort, environmentally sustainable, appropriately aligned to tourist seasons, immersive local community engagement - the slow-museum model seems to have it all; but not without its challenges! With concerns of waitlisting in terms of booking exhibitions or artwork donations, artists' resentments, job cuts etc., I really like how the article highlights that the model still paves way for in-depth conversations and consciousness art consumption. As a fan of slow living and relishing art, slowly and meaningfully, a yay from me!

Is slow the new fast? Imagine a museum where you can breathe and truly appreciate the art, not just race through a checklist of exhibits. That's the idea behind the hot new trend of "slow museums." Slow museums are all about quality over quantity. They showcase fewer collections but invest more time and energy into making each one unforgettable. It's not just about the paintings (though those are still awesome!). Slow museums are also upping the game on events and workshops. Imagine chatting with the artist, learning a new skill, or participating in discussions about the art. With the rise of slow museums, we gotta wonder: is less truly more for museums? Could this be the key to a deeper connection with art and culture? Would you rather have a curated, in-depth experience or the variety of a traditional museum? 👇 #MuseumExperience #ArtAndCulture #CultureShift

A classic is a classic.

Towards adopting more environmentally sustainable practices.

Exciting News from Royston Museum! Royston Museum has secured funding from the North Herts Prosperity Fund and the Brian Leslie Racher Trust to upgrade the Collections Store and Art Store this winter. These improvements will boost storage capacity by 30%, helping to better preserve the Museum’s collections. To complete the work, the Museum is temporarily closed and plans to reopen in time for the February half-term. Follow @RoystonMuseum on social media or sign up to receive updates on the progress! To read this and more visit: https://lnkd.in/e4CxNV4v #RoystonMuseum #MuseumUpdates #RoystonHistory #MuseumNews #LocalHistory #CommunityNews #ReadMore

This is worth reading 🔽 Even though I believe is by far much more than just that. The social dimension of the role tends to be made invisible, as if being a mediator were just being an almost passive link between two things. Being a mediator is getting involved with the community, listening to its needs, being a relevant actor in the decision-making process in your institution, ensuring that educational and didactic aspects are included in the exhibitions and participating in their museography, generating research and innovation in their practices, among a thousand other things. Let's not reduce its importance to just being a guide. That paradigm has long been obsolete.

Museums often take a one-way approach to education: professionals teach, and the public learns. But what if we flipped this script? Jose Antonio Gordillo Martorell, Founder and CEO of Cultural Inquiry, urges us to give youth a voice in our museums by setting up a Children’s Board, where kids can become co-creators and decision-makers. https://lnkd.in/eP5tyRH9 #museum #museums #museumnext

Reposting our recent research about Museums on ‘International Museum Day’ celebrated globally today. The central thread of the day is museums as a vital space to shape social and historical narratives as well as to celebrate diversity (UNESCO,2024). In our paper, we explore existing knowledge about digitalisation and digitisation used in museum narratives and curatorship, to demonstrate how these processes impact the role of museums and memory-making. #MuseumDay Yap, J. Q. H., Kamble, Z., Kuah, A. T. H., & Tolkach, D. (2024). The impact of digitalisation and digitisation in museums on memory-making. Current Issues in Tourism, 1–23. https://lnkd.in/g32MHsBg