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One automatically updated stream from MuseumNext and Digital meets Culture, covering museums, AI, XR, digital cultural heritage and education. The latest articles appear first, with their source and publication date. Headlines and short excerpts remain in the source language.

How English Heritage Used Poetry to Engage Young People: Lessons for Museums
by Manuel Charr (MuseumNext) on October 24, 2026 at 4:00 pm
Museum and heritage learning teams share a common challenge: how do you help young people make a personal connection with collections and historic places, rather... The post How English Heritage Used […]
The Giant Scarf Project: How Creative Making Builds Community Engagement in Museums
by Manuel Charr (MuseumNext) on October 24, 2026 at 2:46 pm
What happens when a football museum asks a city to knit? For the National Football Museum, the answer was a scarf more than 200 metres... The post The Giant Scarf Project: How Creative Making Builds […]
How to Turn an Archive into a Community Movement: Crowdsourcing Lessons from National Library of Wales
by Manuel Charr (MuseumNext) on October 24, 2026 at 2:10 pm
Starting in autumn 2023, around 400 volunteers transcribed the names and addresses on the 390,296 signatures of the Welsh Women’s Peace Petition of 1923–24. Most... The post How to Turn an […]
How the Philadelphia Museum of Art Brought 600 Teen Voices Into Its American Art Galleries
by Manuel Charr (MuseumNext) on October 23, 2026 at 3:38 pm
How do you make a major gallery reinstallation feel relevant to young people who may never have visited your museum? The Philadelphia Museum of Art... The post How the Philadelphia Museum of Art […]
What the Saint Louis Art Museum Learned from Four Bold Audience Experiments
by Manuel Charr (MuseumNext) on October 23, 2026 at 3:12 pm
What happens when a museum invites babies, dogs and stand-up comedians through its doors? At the Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM), it became a two-year... The post What the Saint Louis Art Museum […]
DIGICHer Project Highlights Community-Centered Heritage Digitisation, Linguistic Diversity, and Inclusive Policy Frameworks Across Europe
by Susanna Capannini (Digital meets Culture) on October 22, 2026 at 5:46 pm
October 2026 / Representation of the European Region Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino, Brussels DIGICHer (Digitisation of the cultural heritage of minority communities for equity and renewed engagement), […]
IMPULSE Final Conference
by Susanna Capannini (Digital meets Culture) on October 20, 2026 at 6:28 am
October 20th-21st, Bologna (Italy) and online The IMPULSE — IMmersive digitisation: uPcycling cULtural heritage towards new reviving StratEgies project Final Conference marks the culmination of […]
SECreTOUR final conference
by admin (Digital meets Culture) on October 19, 2026 at 3:39 pm
Granada, 19-20 November 2026 The final conference of the SECreTOUR project is taking place in Granada on 19-20 November 2026. The first day on 19/11 starts in the morning with the welcome messages […]
Sustainability and Inclusion in Museum Shops
by Manuel Charr (MuseumNext) on October 11, 2026 at 3:06 am
How museum shops connect sourcing with their mission, with examples of local makers, inclusive suppliers and more careful sustainability claims. The post Sustainability and Inclusion in Museum Shops […]
Culture Dose for Kids: Art Gallery Programme for Anxious Children
by Manuel Charr (MuseumNext) on October 10, 2026 at 9:00 pm
The Art Gallery of New South Wales programme combines separate gallery discussions with shared artmaking, giving families time to explore without a prescribed result. The post Culture Dose for Kids: […]
What Städel learned from designing an art app with people living with dementia
by Manuel Charr (MuseumNext) on October 10, 2026 at 4:36 pm
ARTEMIS Digital grew from an in-person museum programme into a web application, with testing that shaped its pace, navigation and opportunities for shared looking. The post What Städel learned from […]
JPEG Trust Summit 2026: building trust in digital media
by Susanna Capannini (Digital meets Culture) on October 7, 2026 at 6:54 pm
12-13 November 2026, London (UK) On 12–13 November 2026, the JPEG Committee will organise the first JPEG Trust Summit at the Alan Turing Institute in London, bringing together international experts […]