The Museums Computer Group (MCG) has been running events about museums and technology, such as UK Museums and the Web (UKMW), for a couple of decades. The sector changes constantly, and we want to reach new audiences and share the messages from our 2016 ‘Museums+Tech’ conference. To help us achieve this we have a small […]
Tickets are now on sale for this year’s annual MCG conference – formerly known as UKMW16 and newly rebranded as the Museums+Tech conference. The 2016 Museums Computer Group Museums+Tech Conference will be held at the Wellcome Collection, London on 19 October 2016. Book now to attend our one-day Museums+Tech conference, and hear from a diverse […]
By Nicole Friedman MCG hosted a one-day workshop on the topic of Digital Projects (Event Agenda & Presentation slides), with speakers from various parts of the GLAM sector. It was a fantastic opportunity to hear about the challenges that institutions are facing, as well as what they are doing to overcome obstacles (mostly that of […]
In January, our Chair, Mia Ridge, was to invited to Nesta’s Digital Culture Panel event to respond to their 2015 Digital Culture survey on ‘How arts and cultural organisations in England use technology’ (produced with Arts Council England (ACE) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)). Her response was informed by years of discussions […]
The MCG’s Rosie Clarke wrote this ahead of our Spring 2016 event. Making digital projects sustainable: a challenge for everyone! This recent article by Martha Henson – Stop wasting money on digital projects if you aren’t prepared to promote them properly – attracted a lot of support from the cultural heritage sector and beyond. We’ve all been […]
By Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja I made the decision to attend the MCG spring event based on my personal and professional curiosity about sustainability in digital projects, more specifically in relation to the subject of my PhD thesis: online exhibitions and publications. In the last months I also started to hear more frequently about sustainability in museums […]
On 6 May 2016, over 50 museum technology professionals gathered to discuss ‘Life with digital projects‘. We heard from consultants, senior museum and agency staff, academics, developers and producers over a day that began in style with Charlotte Sexton’s keynote and ended with a debate on ‘outsourcing digital heritage projects is more harm than help’. […]
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UKMW16 will be held at the Wellcome Collection in London on 19 October 2016. Tickets will go on sale over summer. In the meantime, you can find out what people loved about our past conferences and sign up for our events newsletter. MCG’s UKMW16 theme: Sharing our stories Museums have a range of interesting […]
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 […]