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AGM 2019
This year’s Museums Computer Group AGM will take place at the Museums + Tech conference on 18 October at the British Library, 1.15-2.15pm. All are welcome to attend.
Museums+Tech 2019 keynote announcement: Loic Tallon
The MCG Committee are pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for this year’s Museums+Tech conference will be Loic Tallon. Loic’s keynote will be ‘Is the Met open?’ The word ‘open’ was used often at The Met to describe both how the digital team worked and the activities we delivered. Openness is one of the five principles of the […]
MCG’s Museums + Tech 2019: Volunteers needed!
MCG’s Museums+Tech 2019 with the theme of ‘Openness’ is shaping up to be a great event. As always, we are sure that attendees at this year’s event in the British Library will come away both inspired and challenged by the day. In-keeping with the theme of ‘openness’, we also want to make sure the messages […]
Meet the speakers: Museums+Tech 2019 conference, Friday 18 October, The British Library
We have an amazing line up of speakers for this year’s conference. Find out more about who will be sharing their projects and learning with us at the British Library on 18 October! Buy your ticket for Museums+Tech 2019 James Baker – Senior Lecturer in Digital History and Archives, University of Sussex Helen Casey – […]
MCG’s Museums+Tech 2019: call for proposals
Call for papers now closed. Keep an eye out for more information soon. Museums+Tech 2019 will be held at the British Library, London, on 18 October 2019. MCG’s Museums+Tech 2019: openness Museums and other cultural organisations have long been encouraged to be more open, in multiple senses of the word. From a technology point of […]
Technological Rhythms and Organisational Flows
Maria Paula Arias was part of our team of bursary-funded volunteers who helped make the Museums+Tech 2018 conference possible. In this article, Maria picks out two presentations from the day – by Matt Locke and Jon Pratty – and reflects on the conference’s themes of the ‘collaborative museum’. On October 19th 2018 I had the […]
Reflections on Museums+Tech 2018 by Natàlia Fernández Ashman
Natàlia was part of our team of bursary-funded volunteers who helped to make the Museums+Tech 2018 conference our most successful yet. Here, Natàlia reflects on the presentations of the day. On 19 October, I was lucky enough to volunteer at the MCG Museums+Tech 2018 conference at the National Gallery, London. A plethora of inspiring speakers […]
AGM 2018
Friday 19 October 2018, National Gallery
Museums+Tech 2018 Volunteer Call
The Museums Computer Group’s Museums+Tech 2018: the collaborative museum conference is shaping up to be a great event, set to inspire and challenge a wide range of attendees. The event takes places at the National Gallery in London on Friday 19 October. We want to make sure that the messages emerging from the conference are […]