This year’s Museums Computer Group AGM will take place at Museums + Tech 2016 (19 October 2016 at the Wellcome Collection). Full details of the AGM can be found below. The AGM will include the election of nominees to the Committee. Joining the Committee is a great way to support your peers and help […]
The Museum Computer Group is pleased to offer a small number of bursaries to enable a broad range of people to attend our Spring workshop 2016 – ‘Life Support: living with digital projects’ in the Hospititum, York on 6th May. The bursary provides free entry to the event and an additional £100 to cover […]
The extended MCG community loves to chat! Here’s a month-by-month selection of the most popular topics on the Museums Computer Group’s museum technology discussion list in 2015. It’s based on an unscientific review of post counts and subject lines, but it looks like people in 2015 had opinions on: image metadata, 3D printing, cultural heritage […]
A post on the Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography’s site presents the text of the 2015 AHFAP Conference Keynote by James Stevenson. In looking back at the history of museum photography, he also touches on the history of related practitioner groups: ‘It is interesting to see when other associations in museums were founded: […]
Notice of the MCG Annual General Meeting at UKMW15 This year’s Museums Computer Group AGM will take place at UKMW15 (26 October 2015 at the British Museum). Full details of the AGM can be found below. The AGM will include the election of nominees to the Committee. Joining the committee is a great way to support your peers and help the sector. It’s also an opportunity to meet people, gain valuable skills and experience, and enhance your CV. If you are motivated to help and […]
Update: these changes were accepted at the 2014 MCG AGM. In this post we propose a change to the Museums Computer Group (MCG)’s Constitution to clarify the current use of the term ‘audit’ and update the language of the Constitution to match past MCG practice. Background While organising the 2013 accounts for the 2014 MCG […]
Interested in joining the MCG Committee? Nominations are open until midday on Thursday November 6, 2014 – head to our call for MCG Committee members for more information. Ivan Teage Ivan manages the Digital Development team at the Natural History Museum, London, delivering key projects and introducing new technologies and processes to build digital strengths […]
The Museums Computer Group is an independent not-for-profit organisation. The MCG Committee consists of nine members working across operational areas including admin and membership support, events, communications and special projects, and an Executive group consisting of a Chair, Secretary and Treasurer. Our goal is to help our members and the wider cultural heritage sector by […]
This year’s Museums Computer Group Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place at the UK Museums on the Web 2014 conference on 7 November 2014 at the Natural History Museum. The AGM will include the election of nominees to the Committee. Joining the MCG Committee is a great way to support your peers and help […]
The MCG Committee has written to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to them to support net neutrality. The text of our letter is below. We owe particular thanks to The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Open Letter on Net Neutrality for the impetus for and form of our letter. The international Museums […]