MuseumNext Talks

In this episode of the MuseumNext Podcast, Jim speaks with the Wouter van der Horst about how museums can get more from YouTube.

In this episode of the MuseumNext Podcast, Jim speaks with the Executive Director of the Philbrook Museum of Art, Scott Stulen. They talk about how museums are responding to the COVID-19 crisis.

Susan Ferentinos, Public history researcher, writer and consultant spoke at MuseumNext Indianapolis in September 2015 about ways that museums might begin thinking about expanding their interpretation to include Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) stories.

This talk on how staff engagement creates museum success was presented at MuseumNext Dublin on 19th April 2016, by Eleanor Appleby from Jane Wentworth Associates.

Dea Birkett from Kids in Museums talks about their UK based Takeover Day at MuseumNext Dublin in April 2016.

Shelley Bernstein talks about ASK Brooklyn Museum, a new initiative which empowers visitors to ask questions using their mobile devices.

David Fleming, the Director of National Museums Liverpool spoke with Jasper Visser about his vision for museums that change lives at MuseumNext Dublin in April 2016.

This presentation on creating the inclusive museum through storytelling was given at MuseumNext Indianapolis on 26th September 2015, by Matthew Solari, Creative Director, BRC Imagination Arts. In his presentation Matthew talks about how highly impactful inclusive museums tap into the power of authentic stories to create both communal and personal moments.

Deborah Cullinan, CEO, Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Fransisco, USA Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ “prototyping places for people” initiative addresses the growing issues of disconnection and lack of empathy among the diverse people of San Francisco. In the midst of rapid change, the city’s local media headlines are dominated by battles over public and private space, and questions of whom the city, or any given neighborhood, really belongs to. Traditional urban planning processes have had limited, if any, community input. But YBCA believes that citizens deserve a voice in the transformation unfolding in their streets. Through an unprecedented partnership with the San Francisco Planning Department, YBCA has launched an open source model that puts the people of the city at the center of, and profoundly influencing, how things grow and shift. They began on Market Street; a major thoroughfare that spans several neighborhoods in the midst of dramatic change. The Market Street Prototyping Festival asked citizens to submit their ideas for making Market Street a more welcoming, inspiring destination for the diverse people that live and work along it’s path. An open call yielded hundreds of submissions, and 50 ideas were selected to become temporary design installations (“prototypes”). Over three days in April, almost one million people visited these installations along Market Street, and it brought connectivity, empathy and inspiration to the city’s streets. This was the first iteration of what will become an annual endeavor, leading up to and beyond the planned redesign of Market Street in 2018. Over the next two years, YBCA will incubate 100 open-sourced ideas for activating public space, while tackling big questions like: can citizen-driven change achieve equity? Moving forward, the “prototyping places for people” work will grow in new directions and neighborhoods based on learnings. Presented at MuseumNext Dublin. MuseumNext is a global conference series on the future of museums - museumnext.com