Have you booked your ticket for #Musetech25 yet? Alison Bean, Website Product Manager at The British Museum will be speaking about accessibility and how to make it easier for disabled and neurodivergent visitors to plan a visit to your museum museumscomputergroup.org.uk/events/mcg-m...

At #MuseTech25 Graeme Ellis from Science Museum Group and Katie Moffat from Substrakt will be speaking about empowering audiences, easing operations: How the Science Museum transformed group bookings across five museums 🎟️ museumscomputergroup.org.uk/events/mcg-m...

It's 12 weeks until #MuseTech25 and we'd like to say a huge thank you to our hosts Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum. Buy tickets and see the conference programme on our website museumscomputergroup.org.uk/events/mcg-m...

#MuseTech25 Keynote: FOMO is not a strategy! Rachel Coldicutt OBE, Executive Director of Careful Industries, will explore practical methods for combining curiosity with inventiveness while putting people and planet first. museumscomputergroup.org.uk/events/mcg-m... @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social

We'd like to say a big thank you our conference sponsors this year, Numiko and Manifesto. We'd also like to say thank you to everyone who has bought an earlybird ticket to #MuseTech25 so far, there's only a very small amount remaining! www.tickettailor.com/events/museu...

Happy September! We are excited to announce the programme for our conference this year, 'Seize The Tech' at The ThinkTank in Birmingham on 5 December. 🎟️A small amount of Earlybird tickets are available, visit our website for full details museumscomputergroup.org.uk/events/mcg-m...

Less than a week to submit a proposal for #MuseTech25

Always an excellent conference, and a welcoming, constructive community! (Sadly I have a clash and can't go 😭 )

Would you like to speak at our conference? This year we're returning to the ThinkTank in Birmingham on 5 December Seize the tech! Is the #MuseTech25 theme. To find out more and submit a proposal visit our website 👇 museumscomputergroup.org.uk/events/mcg-m...

Happy #InternationalMuseumDay 📢 The perfect time to announce our annual conference! 🏛️Museums+Tech 2025 will be returning to the ThinkTank in Birmingham on Friday 5 December. 💻'Seize The Tech!' is the theme and we're on the look out for speakers 👇 museumscomputergroup.org.uk/events/mcg-m...

And our survey said.... One of the current discussions on the MCG List is about web surveys. What platform are you using? If you haven't already, join the Museums Computer Group discussion list 👇 museumscomputergroup.org.uk/join/mcg-com...

Congratulations to all the Digital Culture Network award winners! That's our lunchtime reading sorted today....https://digitalculturenetwork.org.uk/news/announcing-the-2025-digital-culture-awards-winners

Last week we had our first in person Museums Computer Group committee meeting of the year at The British Library - we forgot to take photos but we did start making plans for the #MuseTech25 conference. Lots more details to follow!

Happy Pi Day! Raspberry Pi has been a recent conversation on the MCG list. Join in the discussion 👇 museumscomputergroup.org.uk/join/mcg-com...

Thank you! Yes there's no such thing as a silly question (well, within reason!) on the MCG discussion list. museumscomputergroup.org.uk/join/mcg-com...

One of the talking points on the MCG list at the moment is around digital strategy. What one piece of advice would you give to those currently thinking about digital strategy? Join the free discussion list and take part in the conversation museumscomputergroup.org.uk/join/mcg-com... #MuseTech

Good morning! If you're following us you're probably aware of the MCG discussion list: it's an active email-based community with over 1,700 members. It’s a lively and supportive forum for a diverse group of professionals from museums, galleries, cultural heritage, higher education etc 👇

@ukmcg.bsky.social had a great day at the #musetech24 conference yesterday. And the ThinkTank in Birmingham was a wonderful venue.

Thanks @ukmcg.bsky.social for an awesome day. I’ve left feeling hopeful and truly inspired! #MuseTech2024 (Special mention to this gorgeous chocolate torte) 👌🏼

Right, plunging in here instead of lurking after all the #musetech24 chat today. Lovely to see so many of the old museum Twitter crowd connecting here 😊

Breaking my year-long silence here to say hi @ukmcg.bsky.social - fascinating conference with lots to think about on centring user / people’s needs and motivations in digital projects. #MuseTech24

Key takeaways in developing new platforms - this was specifically about the new FINDS platform for the British Museum / Portable Antiquities Scheme. Couldn’t agree with these more. #MuseTech24

If anyone fancies it at #MuseTech24 I also interviewed Ellie about the National Gallery's 200 Creators Network here: adamkoszary.co.uk/posts/conten...

Whether your audio is 2 minutes long or 4 minutes, people will get halfway through and then stop - Molly Skinner and Beks Leary #MuseTech24

V cool approach from Ellie Wyatt at National Gallery using content creators and partnerships w platforms (incl in China) to use creator pros to get museum collections Out There 👏👏👏 #MuseTech24

‘Real art produces a cognitive response 10x greater than AI art’ - Simon Tanner at #MuseTech24

Anra Kennedy from The Audience Agency takes us back to 1999 with the 24 Hour Museum website - complete with ‘website of the week’ feature #MuseTech24

Really interesting morning at the @ukmcg.bsky.social Museum + Tech 2024 conference! It’s reassuring to hear that we are all trying to solve similar issues by putting our users first.

Thanks to everyone posting from #MuseTech24. I couldn't get this year, so great to see some of what's going on!

#MuseTech24 question from the audience about how organisations can nerd convert generalist audiences

I think that's fair, there definitely isn't one lifeboat or safe harbour. But reliance on huge global platforms given recent changes feels so risky - something like the indieweb POSSE model with content hosted on your own site as well as distributed feels safer indieweb.org/POSSE #MuseTech24

We are LIVE! Thanks to everyone coming to @ukmcg.bsky.social's #MuseTech24 conference Thanks to all our brilliant speakers and @josiefraser.bsky.social for getting this pic of me doing my opening chair schpiel :)

Cogapp's Lou Carroll presenting our work with the Royal Society to put their archive online, including advanced IIIF viewer #MuseTech24

Love the Royal Sofiety emphasis on delivering not just what people want but also what they didn't realise was possible. I don't do much archival research any more but would have loved an inversion option. #MuseTech24

points 3 & 4 on this slide are the ones I see cultural orgs struggling with most consistently, understanding who the audience actually is & delivering something that is genuinely valuable to that audience will almost certainly require doing things v differently than the way you usual do #MuseTech24

Listening to the Tank Museum talking about the creator economy is inspiring, but I do worry about institutions being reliant on increasingly enshittified big platforms. What happens to that community if the platform fails or changes the algorithmic levers? #MuseTech24

Social media allows museums to bring the benefits to more people directly, not rely on onsite visits. Crying, sweating, first time I've heard someone make the point so strongly on stage #MuseTech24

Session 2: 📱Eva Liparova - 10 tips for high impact digital projects 💡Jo Duggan - Mused and reaching Gen A 📹 Nik Wyness - marketing heritage with the creator economy Lou Carroll - science in the making and UX that inspires #musetech2024 @ukmcg.bsky.social

‘Tank enthusiast’ defined: history buff, modeller, engineering geek, collector, veteran, movie fan, gamer. I’m 5 out of the 7. #MuseTech24

"Don't ignore the general public" Lou Carroll, Cogapp #MuseTech24

"Museums don't have to be confined to their buildings" Nik Wyness #MuseTech24

Next up at #MuseTech24 Nik Wyness, Head of Marketing and Engagement at The Tank Museum explains how they have continued to find new audiences

Great #musetech24 opening keynote from Richard Prowse on content design. It’s called a Norman door after Don Norman uxdesign.cc/intro-to-ux-...

These kinds of conference presentations and case studies are always worth saving to help make the argument, or, do a test to show stakeholders it's worth it #MuseTech24

#musetech24 Jo Duggan (Senior Content Producer, Victoria & Albert Museum) talks about making cultural content for Gen A (approx 8-13 yr olds) within a busy attention economy

agree! love how clearly quality research has been demonstrated in all the talks so far #MuseTech24

Swifties unite! We built it they came. Jo Duggan, Senior Content Producer, Victoria and Albert Museum is our next #MuseTech24 speaker.

Great choice of meme by our next speaker Eva Liparova who is currently giving 10 tips for how a digital project run by a small team can lead to a big organisational shift. #MuseTech24

I'm a big fan of double diamond because every single time I've assumed what the end outcome is going to be it turns out to be a wholly or partly different thing #MuseTech24