Museum visitors: it’s all about relationships

Enquestant una visitant, Museu Nacional d’Art de CatalunyaEnquestant una visitant, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

On 6th and 7th March the annual meeting of the Visitor Studies Group was held in London, which we were able to participate in.  The topic proposed was Visitor studies, it’s all about relationship. The scope was mainly Anglo-Saxon, the Visitor Studies Group is a research group of audiences and visitors that gathers together researchers from…

Read more »
Author: Josep-Miquel Faura

Museum libraries: the great unknown

The museum libraries attend as many users from the institution itself as external ones, who come to library as researchers, to study art or to get more information about the collections. But it wasn’t always so, due to the fact that initially these types of libraries emerged from the museum’s own activities, so as to…

Read more »
Author: Jana Soto

Museums and mobiles. Thoughts after Mobile World Congress #MWC14

Mobile World Congress

Conxa Rodà A major success in terms of attendance, spectacular new devices, either tablets, mobiles or wearables, quite another world that seems a long way from the museums. But not so far if we think that what can now have futuristic tinges, with a vertiginous evolution of the technology and of the social practices, could…

Read more »
Author: Conxa Rodà

The challenges for today’s museums

The museums find themselves, in the heart of the 21st century, in a definitively new environment which requires them to make a profound change in the way they act and relate with society. With no doubt, museums have overcome the model based on a nineteenth century conception that defined them as deposits of heritage to be catalogued, protected and exhibited.

Read more »
Author: Pepe Serra