Rachael Woody emphasizes that storytelling is key to engaging audiences with collections. One effective approach? The prescriptive linear pathway—a simple yet powerful method for guiding visitors through digital exhibits.
Digital exhibits provide powerful ways to engage audiences, but choosing the right story pathway is key. Explore how different exhibit structures—linear vs. multi-pathway—shape the visitor journey.
Explore how museums can enhance storytelling with multimedia players, using audio-visual materials and archival content to create engaging digital narratives.
Museums thrive on storytelling, and the right digital tools can make all the difference. Slideshows and flipbooks offer an engaging way to showcase collections, drawing visitors in with dynamic visuals and interactive elements.
Visual tools such as zoom are crowd pleasers when presenting visual content online, allowing museums to create immersive and engaging digital experiences.
A museum’s Collections Management System (CMS) is more than just a catalog—it can also serve as a foundation for digital storytelling. By leveraging the rich object data and images already housed in the CMS, museum professionals can experiment with new ways to craft compelling narratives. In this article, Rachael Cristine Woody explores how different types of digital surrogates can bring museum collections to life online.
When the physical exhibit was forced to close prematurely, NGS pivoted to a fully online, digital exhibition. What resulted is a masterclass in digital storytelling, utilizing a multi-pathway structure and a variety of storytelling performance types.
Exhibit design has long been a cornerstone of storytelling, crafting immersive, sensory-rich experiences within museum walls. But when the story moves beyond the physical space, how can the principles of exhibit design thrive in a digital realm?
Designing an exhibit is more than arranging objects—it’s about guiding visitors through a story. But do your exhibits tell the stories you want visitors to experience?
This is the sixth year of our forecasts for the museum field! An incredible amount of change has occurred in the sector which brings with it new challenges and opportunities.
At the start of 2024, I shared three forecasts for museums regarding digital programs, AI, and burnout in the museum industry. This post recaps the specifics of my forecast and how those areas actually evolved over the course of 2024.
Let’s look at the numbers and consider taking inspiration from what our visitors are most interested in. This demand-driven approach can be incredibly informative and can offer fodder for stories in perpetuity.
Online exhibits lack the constraints that can make it impossible to relate stories in a physical exhibition and can inspire us to share in new ways
