Update: now the conference is over, we’re collecting event reports at ‘UKMW12 round-up’. The Museums Computer Group’s annual Museums on the Web conference – UKMW12 – will be held at the Wellcome Collection in London on 30 November 2012. The theme for UKMW12 is ‘strategically digital’. Responding to the issues faced by museums today, UKMW12 […]
Full programme now live: https://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2012/10/26/programme-for-ukmw12/. FAQ: what is UKMW12? Museums on the Web is the Museums Computer Group’s annual conference about, well, museums and the web. As always, UK Museums on the Web is a day for being inspired by the latest ideas, for learning from case studies grounded in organisations like yours, and for […]
If you have got something that you’re working on or have launched recently; why not share it at UKMW12? There are 5 open mic slots available to talk for no more than 5 minutes. These can be informal and provide you with the opportunity to tell us about a project you are working on, make […]
Update, November 2012: the full programme is online at UK Museums on the Web: UKMW12 ‘Strategically Digital’ Programme. Follow the hashtag #ukmw12 on the day, or check back after the conference for a summary and a list of blog posts/tweets about the event. The Committee of the Museums Computer Group is excited to announce that […]
‘Engaging digital audiences in museums’ was another successful Museums Computer Group regional event, and it was even better because it was co-created with the Digital Learning Network. Here are some of the great reports and blog posts people wrote after attending ‘Engaging digital audiences in museums’: Learning and Technology sitting in a Museum Shaped tree…EngageM Take […]
For our joint conference with Museums Computer Group (MCG), we invited two bloggers to record the event – Nadja Ryzhakova used her iPad to capture the day in pictures and Laura Martin provided a written summary. Their work is shown below: On July 11th 2012, under the title ‘Engaging Digital Audiences in Museums’, professionals from museums […]
A nice mention of the MCG’s UK Museums on the Web in Time magazine, ‘Un-Stuffy Museum: The Louvre Goes High-Tech with Video-Console Guides‘: “…partnerships are valuable as technology evolves faster than any museum alone can follow. At conferences like MuseumNext in Barcelona or Museums and the Web in the U.K. and U.S., institutions from around […]
The MCG is approaching its 30th anniversary as a group (which personally feels pretty impressive in these times of constant change). The world has changed quite a bit since we thought about MCG@25 in 2007, so the MCG Committee felt the approach of the group’s 30th anniversary is a good prompt to revisit past discussions […]
Museums are finding more and more ways to use digital technologies to enhance their learning and public engagement programmes. Technology has tremendous potential to engage, excite and inspire people, to make learning more flexible and to cater for different learning styles and abilities. In many museums, however, the work of learning departments and technology teams […]
As a follow up to the 2011 UK Museums on the Web Conference please see below a list of blogs that will hopefully be useful for those that attended on the day, followed it online or that couldn’t make it. Blogs Oonagh Murphy (official blogger for the day): The Innovative Museum: Part 1 & Part […]