Save your Date for MuseumNext 2

Let me first wish you a happy and eventful new year full of arts, visits and discoveries, experiences and learnings from your fellow workers, students, journalists or institutions.

Museum Strategy has been sleeping a bit after CultureBusiness and will be back with a detailed account of our forum, a new focus on a French museums and much more.

 For now on, the news I want to share with you is about the second installment of the conference initiated by leading consultant and lecturer Jim Richardson: MuseumNext.  

Unlike the first successful edition which took place in Newcastle, it will be set in London this time around.  The foundations of Museum Next lay in the sharp analysis of how technological progress reshapes the way the audiences want to experience their museums today and tomorrow. Jim, founder and Director of Newcastle-based design company SUMO has lectured across Europe to encourage arts organisations to embrace this radical shift in the way an institution communicate with their public.

 At Agenda we are convinced that being able to bring about this change is key and will make not only a difference between organisations but that developing a  knowledge, a taste and an adapted practice of Web 2.0 tools is a crucial point for their development.

                                                                                       

At the end of 2009, I wrote a post on the first edition of MuseumNext and later had a guest post by  AliceLebredonchel reporting on her experience of  MuseumNext original and forward thinking format.

Staged at the Wellcome Collection conference center, MuseumNext 2 will explore story sharing of successful Web 2.0 campaigns thanks to an impressive line-up : Gail Durban from the V&A, Victor Samra from the MoMA,  John Stack from the Tate, Elyse Topalian from the Metropolitan Museum of Art that we had the pleasure to hear this summer at Communicating the Museum and freshly announced Jan Willem Sieburgh from the Rijksmuseum to talk about Iphone apps devices. Museumnext will also greet Diane Drubay from France, which we are very happy about as it seems that our country is going international in this field.

To attend, all the information is on Museum Next website. Don’t forget to visit it, as well as the blog and Twitter thread.

See you there!