Interview with Jennie Choi, Manager of Collection Information at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Public Domain Artworks from the online collection of The Met The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as the largest art museum in the United States, has 100 curators and 1.5 million artworks in their permanent collection. The Digital department, founded in 2008, has three…

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The first day of our Digital Strategy class, we were asked by the professor, if museums should have a digital strategy. It’s a tricky question that left half the class saying yes and half saying no. And in reality and like everything in the museum sector, what works for one museum may not be the…

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Pratt MDC students visiting MoMA’s Louise Bourgeois exhibition with Assistant Director of Digital Media, Chiara Bernasconi In a new course at Pratt titled “Digital Strategy: Museum Planning and Management,” Elena Villaespesa teaches the frameworks and tools needed to implement digital strategies in museums. To build on readings and in-class exercises, the class spent an afternoon…

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A view of Dubrovnik from the City Wall. The town has hosted the Best in Heritage conference for 16 years now. In September of this year, I was part of a special gathering. Unbeknownst to me, this gathering has been taking place for the past 15 years in a special corner of the world, the beautiful…

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