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How the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Made Sustainability Everyone's Job
20+ hour, 6+ min ago (246+ words) Through a transdisciplinary internal team called GU-Zero, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has turned environmental action from a specialist function into a shared institutional practice " with measurable results. GU-Zero is not a sustainability committee in the traditional sense. It doesn't exist…...
What Happens When You Set an Artwork Free? The Sainsbury Centre's Day Release Project
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (887+ words) What if a museum's most powerful act wasn't bringing people through its doors, but sending its artworks out into the world instead? At the Museum Digital Summit 2026, Beatrice Prutton, Digital Communications and Creative Curator at the Sainsbury Centre, presented Day…...
When Sculptures Speak: How AI Gave a Voice to the Gardens of Versailles
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (799+ words) A partnership between Ask Mona, the Palace of Versailles, and Open AI has turned a walk through one of the world's most visited gardens into a real-time conversation " letting visitors speak directly with the statues that line its paths. Imagine…...
How Portsmouth Museum Took Art to the Parks, Cemeteries and Communities That Needed It Most
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (1154+ words) What does meaningful community engagement look like when you strip away the grand budgets and the elaborate programming? For Portsmouth Museum & Art Gallery, it looked like a tuk-tuk, a backpack full of pencils, and a willingness to meet people exactly…...
Designing for the Classroom: How Tate Schools Is Rethinking Digital Learning with Art
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (827+ words) What happens when a national museum stops asking "how do we make our collection available online?" and starts asking "what do teachers actually need?" The answer, as Tate's Effie Coe explained at the Museum Digital Summit 2026, looks quite different from…...
How the National Gallery of Art Used Video to Take an Exhibition Beyond Its Walls
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (488+ words) La Toya Hobbs filmed working in her Baltimore Studio When the National Gallery of Art's production studio started planning content around its Elizabeth Catlett exhibition " a travelling retrospective that opened in Washington, D. C. in March 2025 " the team wasn't simply asking how…...
When the Museum Becomes a Space for Emotions: Inside the Biosph're's Emolab
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (725+ words) Montr'al's Biosph're has created an exhibition dedicated entirely to climate emotions " and the story of how it came to exist is almost as compelling as the exhibition itself. "We started sharing our feelings, our emotions about environmental issues and the…...
How a Tokyo Science Museum Used Behavioural Science to Change Its Own Staff's Habits
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (980+ words) Miraikan ran a four-month campaign to encourage employees to swap disposables for reusables. Here's what they learned about making sustainability behaviour change actually work. When sustainability teams think about who they need to reach, visitors are usually the obvious answer....
When the Museum Comes to Prison: Oxford's 'In the Frame' Programme
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (688+ words) How the University of Oxford's Gardens, Libraries and Museums is using handling objects and creative activities to support wellbeing inside HMP Bullingdon and HMP Grendon. What happens when a museum removes its walls entirely " and brings its objects into one…...
Why Professional Development Matters for Museum Professionals
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (1043+ words) Learn how investing in your growth can transform your career " and your institution. Museums are at a crossroads. Visitor expectations are changing, digital transformation is reshaping how collections are shared, and conversations around inclusion, decolonisation, and community engagement are redefining…...