Cuseum is excited to launch a new mobile app with the Fairfield University Art Museum. This special collaboration further proves that museums of every shape, size, and budget can enjoy the benefits of digital for their visitors.
MuseumNext Indianapolis's Themes of Inclusion
Last week, we attended yet another marvelous museum conference; MuseumNext, hosted at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
MoMA and the exciting possibilities with museum metadata
The Museum of Modern Art in New York uploaded collection data from nearly 124,000 artworks to GitHub, a code-sharing and Git repository hosting service, in July with less than expected fanfare. It’s not the first time a museum has given the public access to this type of information, and MoMA’s release isn’t the most extensive.
Cuseum loves Communicating The Museum
At Cuseum, we love museums and the community of creative and passionate people driving them forward. We recently headed to Istanbul for Communicating The Museum. With more than 300 attendees from all around the world, more than 30 talks and workshops, and the beautiful city of Istanbul as a backdrop - it’s safe to say that we left inspired and energized!
Sneakers, relevance and 5 questions for a museum curator
Here at Cuseum, we think a lot about relevance and the future of museums. We’re constantly on the lookout for examples of museums using new technology, creating exhibits to attract younger patrons, or finding other ways to enhance the visitor experience.
Cuseum takes the stage at Techstars Demo Day
Over the past few months, the Cuseum team has gotten to know some incredible founders, leaders, and innovators as part of the Techstars community.
Museums that act like startups: An Interview with Douglas Hegley
What We’re Reading: The Shifting Digital Experience
While browsing the blogosphere we came across this article on Mashable: “Web design is dead” by Sergio Nouvel for UX Magazine. “Web pages themselves are no longer the center of the Internet experience,“ he writes.
Three Minutes with Zachariah Reiner, Product Lead
Google Introduces Eddystone (and What That Means for Museums)
Last week Google introduced a delightful surprise with Eddystone. Why is this so exciting? It’s another step in the right direction for beacons. Eddystone is “platform agnostic” meaning it will allow us to seamlessly use Bluetooth beacon technology across iOS and Android. It will even enable us to better integrate beacon technology across iPhone user’s Google apps like Maps and Chrome. Estimote, whom we partner with, “announced support for Eddystone from day one” and Kontakt, another great beacon provider we use, supports Eddystone as well.
Drinking About Museums
This week we had the pleasure of (once again) joining our fellow museum lovers for #DrinkingAboutMuseums: Boston. Drinking About Museums is “a global movement of museum professionals interested in informal socializing, networking, information sharing, and having a good time.” Yes and yes.
Recapping Our Favorite TrendsWatch 2015 Topics
We’ve been road-tripping and storytelling and celebrating summer. Yet its also already over halfway through 2015 (we know, right?!). Summer is always good for embracing nostalgia. Where have we been? Where are we heading? With these questions in mind we revisited the Center for the Future of Museums TrendsWatch 2015 report this week. The report, released earlier this year, is one of the museum field’s greatest resources. It’s a fascinated touchstone for those of us imaging the future.
Musing at MASS MoCA
This week members of the Cuseum team were at MASS MoCA for Solid Sound, Wilco’s arts and music festival. That’s right: great outdoor music in the summer AND at a museum. There was a lot to love.
#Storytelling
Today we have greater, faster access to information than ever before. There is constant competition for our attention. Within a few hours of waking up you may have already learned a new way of finding stuff out that you didn’t know existed yesterday. Despite, or maybe because of, this dizzying pace we continue to crave meaning.
Cursors for the Physical World
Ah, the age of mobile. Just a few months ago Google changed its algorithm to prioritize mobile-friendly websites but most of us have felt the growing importance of smartphones for awhile now (the “where’s my phone?!” panics and multiple apps we rely on to stay in touch, be in the know, and get from point a to b, for example).
What is relevance?
Cuseum Joins Techstars!
Today is a very exciting day at Cuseum. We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve joined Techstars.
With our time in the Techstars Boston program, our team, product, and vision will grow and strengthen beyond our wildest dreams.
Spring Conference Wrap-Up
There’s a buzz in the air. Here in Boston the sun, salt water, and longer (warmer!) days have us all anticipating these next few magical months. At Cuseum we’re riding a wave of inspiration after a whirlwind spring of conferences. We hung out with directors, designers, administrators, curators, and educators– museum people (our people). Together we geeked out on art, museums, and technology. We shared visions of what the future might look like and what we’re doing to get there.
The Museums of 2035: Innovation Hub Interview
Check out the Innovation Hub interview with our Founder & CEO Brendan Ciecko! He and Elizabeth Merritt, the founding director of the Center for the Future of Museums, discuss technology in museums. They explore new ways museums may engage Generation Y in the museum community. To read the article click here or you can listen to the podcast here.