Rachael Cristine Woody • Mar 26 2025
Discover how self-determinate multiple pathways offer flexible, interactive storytelling in museum exhibits. Learn from the Tenement Museum’s ‘Your Story, Our Story.’
Rachael Cristine Woody • Mar 5 2025
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.
Rachael Cristine Woody • Feb 26 2025
Explore how museums can enhance storytelling with multimedia players, using audio-visual materials and archival content to create engaging digital narratives.
Rachael Cristine Woody • Feb 19 2025
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.
Rachael Cristine Woody • Jan 2 2025
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.
Rachael Cristine Woody • Dec 18 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.
Rachael Cristine Woody • Dec 11 2024
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
Rachael Cristine Woody • Dec 4 2024
In a previous post, I covered how the flexibility of collections online can inspire online storytelling. This week we’ll tap into another source of storytelling inspiration: exhibitions of the past, present, and future.
Rachael Cristine Woody • Nov 20 2024
Storytelling with online collections is impactful, whether we choose online-only or as part of a hybrid approach to museum exhibitions.
Rachael Cristine Woody • Nov 13 2024
Digitizing museum collections introduces new and engaging opportunities for storytelling. By leveraging digital surrogates—essentially online representations of physical objects—museums can enhance how they present narratives and information to audiences.
Rachael Cristine Woody • Nov 6 2024
Storytelling with museum collections online allows for a great degree of flexibility, offers additional detail, and lends a dynamism that is difficult to produce within a physical exhibition.
Rachael Cristine Woody • Oct 30 2024
Last week we reviewed how archives can enhance museum collections online. This week will continue our work with an examination of specific examples, including what items different types of archives may contain and where to capture this data.
Rachael Cristine Woody • Oct 23 2024
Staffed archives are in constant motion in their attempt to provide and broaden access to the archival collections.
