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Essential Lessons From Christie's Education's NFT Curriculum

The four-day Zoominar offered answers to the big and burning questions about NFTs. Here are our main takeaways.

"Experiences For Everybody": 4 Ways To Unlock Immersion

The Making Sense of Immersion program unpacks the myriad challenges and opportunities on the immersion front.

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Digital Guides: How Smartify Is Helping Museums Reach Audiences At Home

The Smartify platform tools enable partner museums to easily build and launch their own digital guides.

Art Of London's AR Gallery Lands On London's West End

Leveraging innovation and collaboration, the Augmented Gallery aims to bring audiences “the art gallery of the future.”

CultureTech

Digital strategies for museums, cultural organizations, and destinations

Physical Or Digital? At theVOV's Phygital Exhibitions, It's Both

The virtual portal, which just launched its first shows on Vortic Art, is reinvigorating past exhibitions with extended reality.

How Cryptocurrency Could Work For Museums

From admissions to donations — cryptocurrency could potentially boost the operations and fundraising efforts of cultural institutions.

The Mauritshuis Museum Captures The Smell Of Art With The Art Of Smell

The museum's Scents in Colour exhibition promises to transport visitors to the 17th century through period-accurate scents and smells.

Forget Bronze And Stone: Here Are LACMA and Snapchat's AR Monuments

We go behind the scenes on one of the virtual works in the museum's Monumental Perspectives project.

CultureTech

Digital strategies for museums, cultural organizations, and destinations

Physical Or Digital? At theVOV's Phygital Exhibitions, It's Both

The virtual portal, which just launched its first shows on Vortic Art, is reinvigorating past exhibitions with extended reality.

How Cryptocurrency Could Work For Museums

From admissions to donations — cryptocurrency could potentially boost the operations and fundraising efforts of cultural institutions.

The Mauritshuis Museum Captures The Smell Of Art With The Art Of Smell

The museum's Scents in Colour exhibition promises to transport visitors to the 17th century through period-accurate scents and smells.

Forget Bronze And Stone: Here Are LACMA and Snapchat's AR Monuments

We go behind the scenes on one of the virtual works in the museum's Monumental Perspectives project.

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Art Gate International Unveils The Future Of Art Fairs — And It's Virtual

Presented in virtual reality, the fair offered an engaging experience, making a compelling case for VR adoption.

Welcome To The Next NFT Frontier: Virtual Worlds

In the metaverse, you'll find crypto creators and galleries from König to Kate Vass who are occupying virtual land to showcase virtual art.

How Pop Mart Dominated The Chinese Art Toy Market In 2020

Pop Mart's annual report recorded a strong 2020 despite pandemic disruptions and potential areas of growth in the coming years.

Join The Clubhouse: The App That's Drawing Art And Museum Players

Candid, intimate, and accessible, the platform presents opportunities for one-to-one conversations and community building.

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Luxury’s NFT Obsession: Determining Legality and Longevity

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Featured Series

Spotlight coverage on new tools, strategies, movements, and events on the museum landscape.

MuseumNext Digital Summit 2021

MuseumNext Digital Summit 2021

MuseumNext’s Digital Summit explored how cultural institutions formed new strategies in a year of seismic change. Explore series

Smartify x JCC

Smartify's guest series explores strategies that cultural institutions can leverage to expand their outreach and enrich their storytelling. Explore series

Museum Insider

Innovative projects, new initiatives, and best practices in the museum sphere

How The Gallery Scene Adapted And Pivoted Amid A Crisis

At Gallery Weekend Beijing's "Adaptation and Collaboration" session, four galleries reflected on the sea changes brought by 2020.

How The Cowboy Museum Won At Social Media

What drove the museum's 385,000 percent growth in social engagement over the past year? No surprise, it's Tim Tiller.

What Were The Most Visited Museums In 2020?

The pandemic devastated museum attendance, but The Art Newspaper's list of the year's top 100 most visited institutions reveals surprising trends.

What Does Museum Education Look Like In A Post-COVID World?

As the pandemic accelerated remote learning, museums have been forced to reassess the issues of educational outreach and accessibility.

Cultural Collaborations

Successful synergies among organizations, agencies, museums, and more

Taipei's National Palace Museum Takes IP Licensing Leap

The institution has inked an agreement with cultural IP specialist Artistory, with plans for a 2022 launch.

Essential Business: London Design Museum’s Gift Shop Turns Grocery Store

In collaboration with Bombay Sapphire and artist Camille Walala, the museum undergoes the rare supermarket pivot.

Inside Pavilions By The Seaside, Haikou's Cultural Tourism Bid

Set to open at the end of 2021, the project aims to introduce culture and architectural flair to the coastline of the Hainan capital.

British Museum And Hello Kitty's Egyptian Adventure Hits Suzhou

Part of the museum's team-up with Sanrio's most popular IP, the "Egyptian Adventure Pop-Up Store" is currently touring East China.

The essential calendar of webinars, meetings, art fairs, and other happenings, virtual and physical

May 13

Fountain House Virtual Symposium: The Creative Mind & Mental Illness, Honoring Agnes Gund

HOSTED BY Fountain House

May 13 - May 28

InterActivity 2021

HOSTED BY Association of Children’s Museums

May 17 - May 21

19th ICOM-CC Triennial Conference in Beijing, China

HOSTED BY ICOM-CC Beijing

May 21

EuropeanaTech x AI Webinar Series: Qurator-ai, Curation Technologies

HOSTED BY Europeana

May 24

2021 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo

HOSTED BY American Alliance of Museums

May 24 - May 27

Cultural Enterprises Conference – The Association For Cultural Enterprises

HOSTED BY Association for Cultural Enterprises

What We’re Reading

Italian Museums Open Again: The Big Plan To Restart The Cultural Sector | Forbes

Frieze New York Tests Whether Collectors Will Return to Art Fairs | The Wall Street Journal

Clearing The Dancefloor: How Club Culture Became A Museum Piece | The Guardian

How New York’s MoMA Became The World’s Most-Followed Museum On Social Media | The Art Newspaper

Will There Be The Funds To Stay Open? | The Humanist Museum

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