The Sound of Reopening
The Sound of Reopening
Empty halls, quiet spaces, lights off, echoes… that is the vision we have of the “closed” museum during the recent lockdown. This was confirmed by museum guards in April, who explained that looking after closed museums was strangely “eerie”. Over the past few weeks, museums are ecstatic to share that
Six Touring Exhibitions for Equality for International Museum Day
Six Touring Exhibitions for Equality for International Museum Day
Today is a day to celebrate museums around the world! Museums are knowledge centres, with an amazing ability to educate informally. The exhibitions they show help open the eyes of visitors to new themes. Most exhibitions are developed by the museum itself, but sometimes they bring in something from an
Curate your next exhibition from your sofa!
Curate your next exhibition from your sofa!
A message to curators all over the world: Working from home is our current reality, and we are all having to adjust our personal and professional lives to it. We are exploring different tools to make these adjustments easier, and thankfully discovering fantastic technologies every day. So here’s a
Helpful COVID-19 Resources for Museums
Helpful COVID-19 Resources for Museums
Vastari has selected a number of helpful online resources and articles for museums during these difficult circumstances. We hope that you may find some valuable information in these pieces; we will keep you posted on other helpful resources, including our own articles and perspectives. Museum Association This is a very
Exhibition Planning in the Wake of COVID-19
Exhibition Planning in the Wake of COVID-19
As the world struggles to come to terms with the best ways to handle COVID-19, many cultural institutions are facing a huge peroid of uncertainty. Because of the pandamic at hand, the arts industry has been especially hard hit, with the unprecedented closure of national and regional cultural venues throughout
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Sometimes you need to step back to step forward: a case for digital facility reports
Sometimes you need to step back to step forward: a case for digital facility reports
Sometimes as a tech company you decide to research something in depth, find that there is a huge market, but ultimately realise that it’s a bit too ambitious to achieve right now. That’s what we discovered at Vastari when we conducted research for the market on digital facility
Is Touring a Means to an End?
Is Touring a Means to an End?
Earlier this week I was invited to take part in a panel discussion titled “Business Not As Usual. Revolutionizing the Cultural Economy” at Frankfurt Book Fair. On the panel with me were Florian Bräunig CEO at YAIR, Martin Eyerer, CIO at Factory Berlin, Stein Olav Henrichsen, Director at Munch Museum,
What went wrong with ICOM's new museum definition
What went wrong with ICOM's new museum definition
Having come back from Kyoto where I attended the 25th ICOM General Conference, I feel it’s worth sharing a few thoughts about the most controversial issue at stake throughout the whole event: the new museum definition. In times of great political, sociological and climatic changes, ICOM has decided to
What has 2019 brought us so far?
What has 2019 brought us so far?
With 2020 just around the corner, we thought that now would be a good time to take a look back at our year, sharing some key facts and figures related to our work with museums and curators. Vastari's 2019 journey In the last 8 months, Over 155 object requests have