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Italy is one of the growing number of countries with its own video game museum, as the GAMM game museum has opened in Rome. https://bit.ly/4eWY70r

Collections Officer Mark Hall discusses how Perth Museum is addressing its colonial collecting practices. He will review the museum's origins and acquisitions through British Empire connections and highlight its current collaboration with the Māori of Aotearoa/New Zealand, including cultural returns and co-curation in the new museum. 🎟️'s https://buff.ly/3XSbj04

How do museums stay relevant in a rapidly changing world? 🏛️ Discover the evolving role of museums today, with a note on the Chinese Canadian Museum's exhibition "Odysseys and Migration". Read more in the Vancouver Sun article below! 📖 https://lnkd.in/gJvqrRv9

The QM marketing team put together this beautiful footage of our now open ‘Secrets’ exhibition. The stories behind these objects of intrigue are so well witten which is a reflection of the skill of our curators. Being able to craft balanced text that doesn’t overwhelm the objects or visitors is such an important part of creating an engaging exhibition. And as labels take up space, I’ll often have discussions early on with curators and graphic designers about label sizes, word counts, font size and position of labels in the gallery. We also discuss QR codes because they free up space. But people come to museums to get away from their phones and see tangible objects in physical space, and QR codes take people back to their phones. What do you think about text in Museums?

The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has published a collection of fifteen papers exploring the future of voluntary repatriation, restitution, and reparations, as part of their Next Horizon of Museum Practice project. The project aims to guide museums through a strategic process of assessing current situations, envisioning "preferable futures," and ultimately determining how to achieve these goals. See, for example, "What's #Provenance is Prologue" by Marc Masurovsky. https://buff.ly/4i4XWTB

Starting up a 2 cyl DWK M32 in the historic engine museum.

"No museum is an island." – Julia Pagel In this exclusive clip, Julia Pagel (NEMO - Network of European Museum Organisations) shares her vision for the future of collaboration in the cultural heritage sector through the Cultural Heritage Cloud She highlights the importance of capacity building, international cooperation, and creating a shared platform to bring cultural heritage professionals together. 🎥 Watch the full interview on our newly launched Bluesky channel! https://buff.ly/3WozAek #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud #HeritageInnovation #BlueskyLaunch

Social connection is one of our research themes for the 2025 Annual Survey. Learn how museums bring people together. Enroll your museum in the Survey by February 28 using the link below: https://lnkd.in/ddsTBbVe American Alliance of Museums #asmg2025

The Fall 2024 issue of Exhibition journal is now out. “Active Disruption” explores the many ways museum exhibitions are disrupting the status quo and harnessing change as a positive force. Rather than fearing change and waiting to react, authors share how proactively pursuing change within exhibitions has transformed everything from the content on display and the processes they follow to the way they connect with communities and make space for multiple forms of engagement. Exhibition is a journal of exhibition theory and practice for museum professionals published by the American Alliance of Museums. To learn more about the journal, this issue, and past issues, check out: https://lnkd.in/eRM8hTc4 #museums #exhibitions #exhibitiondesign

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