An Interactive Online Seminar with the V&A (London) and the Women’s Museum: An Institute for the Future (Dallas) Thursday 17 December THE PROGRAMME | THE SPEAKERS | HOW DOES AN ONLINE SEMINAR WORK? Twitter is the fastest-growing social media platform and in many ways particularly well suited to the needs of museums and cultural organisations. Join us [...]
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Past events
Telling Great Stories
A highly practical guide to storytelling using one of the most powerful communication techniques available. How To Tell Great Stories and Expand Your Audience: Effective Podcasting for Museums & Galleries Monday 5 October 2009 | London Now includes Enhanced Podcasting – combining images with your audio! How To Tell Great Stories and Expand Your Audience: [...]
Inclusion and Engagement
This is an exciting, highly-practical one-day event in which leading professionals from world-class institutions share experiences and insights from their work in the fields of inclusion and engagement within museums and galleries. Monday 14 December | Rivington Place | Central London ABOUT THE SPEAKERS | ABOUT THE VENUE BOOK NOW: last FIVE FOUR THREE TWO [...]
Social Media for Museums
SORRY – NOW SOLD OUT Join experienced, innovative, world-class museum users of social media from the UK and USA for this intensive small-group event. Social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, are now mainstream communication programs. And their potential benefits for museums and galleries are huge. They’re also inexpensive. Easy to use. Quick to implement. [...]
Mobile Technology & Learning
This seminar will both present the results of a range of recent fascinating research studies in this field, and examine in depth how the technology is being used in practice in museums. MOBILE TECHNOLOGY & LEARNING IN MUSEUMS One-day Seminar | London | Monday 8 June The day will consist of two related parts. Our [...]
Photography for Museums
Learn how to make superb images of your museum tutored by Dennis Gilbert, world-renowned museum and architectural photographer, whose work is sought-after by major international museums and galleries. One Day Workshop | London | Tuesday 9 June This one-day workshop for museum professionals is an intensive, highly-practical event limited to just 24 participants. High quality [...]
Visual Merchandising
Visual Merchandising is the quickest, easiest, least expensive way to attract the most visitors into your shop; retain them for longer; and increase your sales. This intensive, highly practical Study Day will give you both proven tools, and creative ideas, to achieve it with confidence. Tuesday 7 July, London | Cost-Effective Visual Merchandising Study Day [...]
Museums as Social Enterprise
Improving people’s lives through an entrepreneurial approach is essentially what Social Enterprise is all about. And in launching initiatives for the unemployed, offenders, people with disabilities, or sustainability, more and more museums are adopting this approach. Initiatives such as these can both have a positive impact on the community – and generate extra income for [...]
Museums and Happiness
How museums are consciously aiming to make their communities happier, featuring cutting-edge research and case studies. UK and international experience will highlight the programmes being implemented and the results being achieved in this pioneering field, which may have huge implications for museums’ futures. Both UK and international experience will drawn upon. We’re bringing together some [...]