Museopunks

In 2012, Collections Trust CEO Nick Poole did a short analysis of 40 mission statements of leading UK museums and galler... Read more

The season for existential crises continued this past month when the International Council of Museums (ICOM) announced t... Read more

Since the 1960s, artists have been critically examining the practices of museums, at times critiquing the idea of what a... Read more

Don’t call this a comeback! After an almost three-year hiatus, Museopunks returns to explore progressive museum practice... Read more

With a reticence towards partisan politics, museums are sometimes perceived to be neutral institutions, many avoiding ta... Read more

As decolonisation moves more firmly onto the agenda in museums, so to does its critique. In this episode, we speak with ... Read more

Did you know that several studies in recent years have shown that when women enter a specific field in large numbers, th... Read more

News and media organizations have been undergoing similar challenges to those facing museums in the digital age, with in... Read more

The vision of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine, describes how the museum “will reflect and realize the values of dec... Read more

What does it mean to be a museum professional with an active online presence? How does blogging, Twitter, and other form... Read more

DigitalCitizenship.net cites nine individual elements of digital citizenship: access, commerce, communication, literacy,... Read more

One of the most interesting sessions at MCN2013 was on The Future of Museum Digital Departments, which featured staff fr... Read more

Unpaid internships are commonplace in the museum world, supported by a culture that suggests “experience” and the chance... Read more

Museums that want to impact their visitors are often concerned with changing their behaviors. However, before any kind o... Read more

Museum collections in established institutions come with long histories. So how do you change a museum’s canon? In this ... Read more

OF/BY/FOR ALL is a global movement and a set of tools to help community institutions around the world become more repre... Read more

Tyler Green (Modern Art Notes) recently wrote that “In the future, most American art museums — say, those with operating... Read more

What role does language have in dictating the way we talk and think about the future – and present – in museums? Does ta... Read more

In early 2019, experience designer Ed Rodley asked the hivemind what they saw as the biggest issues facing ppl who make ... Read more

Being Human, the new permanent gallery at Wellcome Collection, explores what it means to be human in the 21st century. I... Read more