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Throwback Thursday: Reimagining the Museum Experience

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What will museums look like after the pandemic? As news about the Covid-19 vaccine makes us optimistic about returning to more in-person activities soon, we’re looking back to exciting innovations in museum experiences to provide some inspiration for museum re-openings and digital engagement. Read our top 10 recent articles on AI, VR, and more in museums. To start, you can listen to our most recent Let’s Talk episode to find out how museums are integrating virtual volunteering experiences.

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Implementing Gamification for Museum Engagement
Implementing Gamification for Museum Engagement

The pandemic changed the art ecosystem, including the use of gamification in museums. With gamification, the museum experience expands beyond the memory of looking at art or artifacts to the feelings of enjoyment that a game or activity evokes. This articles looks at examples of gamification in museums from around the world, including both low-tech and completely online experiences.

Throwback Thursday: Reimagining the Museum Experience
Throwback Thursday: Reimagining the Museum Experience

What will museums look like after the pandemic? As news about the Covid-19 vaccine makes us optimistic about returning to more in-person activities soon, we’re looking back to exciting innovations in museum experiences to provide some inspiration for museum re-openings and digital engagement.

The National Comedy Center: The Most Interactive Museum (To Date)
The National Comedy Center: The Most Interactive Museum (To Date)

The National Comedy Center is the '“first non-profit institution and national-scale visitors experience dedicated to the art of comedy,” but it does the genre justice appealing to both fans and non-fans (Variety). The museum opened in 2018 and has already been praised as one of the best museum experiences in the country, holding a 5 star ranking on trip advisor.

Image Recognition Technology Use in Museums
Image Recognition Technology Use in Museums

Image recognition, as one of the subsets of computer vision, is the process of identifying objects, places, or people in images or videos. This article discusses different image recognition software being used, and details the author’s experience using the technology at the Barnes Foundation.

Case Study II: Digital Engagement and Experience Design
Case Study II: Digital Engagement and Experience Design

As museums seek to increase engagement in both the physical museum space and across digital platforms, many are striving to create more personalized experiences that differentiate the museum visit and increase engagement with the institution and its collection. These two case studies—the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania, Australia, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York—are examples of hybrid museums that successfully demonstrate how bridging the physical and virtual in the museum visitor experience can increase the length, breadth and depth of engagement with the institution and its collection.

The Hybrid Museum Experience: Case Studies in Digital Engagement and Experience Design
The Hybrid Museum Experience: Case Studies in Digital Engagement and Experience Design

This is part 1 in a two-part series examining hybrid museums that successfully demonstrate how bridging the physical and virtual in the museum visitor experience can increase the length, breadth and depth of engagement with the institution and its collection. Part 1 explores the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania.

Digital Engagement Strategies for the 21st Century Museum
Digital Engagement Strategies for the 21st Century Museum

Shifting audience interests towards interactive and shareable experiences has led many museums to explore the potential of digital engagement tools. Given the costs and changes typically required for successful digital integration, museum staff must first ask themselves why their institution should consider investing in emerging technologies and what they hope to achieve from such an investment.

4 Ways to Enhance the Museum Experience with Artificial Intelligence
4 Ways to Enhance the Museum Experience with Artificial Intelligence

How can museum experts envision the future that may not be too far away with smart machines? Here are 4 possible ways in which AI can transform museums through accessibility and visitor experience improvements.

Artificial Intelligence And the Museum: An Introduction
Artificial Intelligence And the Museum: An Introduction

So, you keep hearing about AI, but what really is this technology all about? And how are some museums incorporating AI into their engagement strategies? AMT Lab Contributor Zaijun Wu investigates.

Virtual Reality and Audience Engagement in Museums
Virtual Reality and Audience Engagement in Museums

How can museums use virtual reality to deepen their engagement with audiences? AMT Lab Contributor Yasmin Foqahaa investigates, and shares some examples of VR use by museums and artists alike.

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Your Favorite Podcasts in 2022
Your Favorite Podcasts in 2022

Here are our top podcasts for 2022 — what did you hear? What did you miss?

Virtual Museum Experiences at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rijksmuseum, and the Benaki Museum
Virtual Museum Experiences at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rijksmuseum, and the Benaki Museum

In this episode, a panel of AMT Lab contributors review their experiences with virtual museum engagement technology for institutions including the Benaki Museum in Greece, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. The featured panelists are Angela Johnson, Emily White, and Junyu Sun.

Let's Talk: Golden Globe Nominations, Streaming Platforms for the Arts, and Virtual Museum Engagement
Let's Talk: Golden Globe Nominations, Streaming Platforms for the Arts, and Virtual Museum Engagement

Angela Johnson and B Crittenden discuss the implications of the recent Golden Globe nominations, followed by a conversation about B’s research on if and why some arts organizations should look to distribute their performances on aggregate streaming platforms. They also discuss virtual volunteering and recent virtual solutions to audience engagement found in museums.

Let's Talk: Impact of Covid-19 Vaccine News, Racism in AI, and Tech Resolutions for 2021
Let's Talk: Impact of Covid-19 Vaccine News, Racism in AI, and Tech Resolutions for 2021

In this month’s Let’s Talk episode, Angela Johnson and B Crittenden chat about how news of the Covid-19 vaccine is affecting attendance at arts institutions as well as how AI implementation in museums can include racial biases. They also share their technology resolutions for 2021.

Interactive Arts: Interview with Yuri Suzuki
Interactive Arts: Interview with Yuri Suzuki

In this episode, Alyssa phones in with Yuri Suzuki, a sound artist, designer, and electronic musician. Together, they discuss the concepts of Yuri’s interactive pieces, how audiences react to them, and how museum and exhibition spaces can host interactive artworks.