It's been an absolute pleasure to have been part of the MCG committee over the last three years. I've not felt that amazing lately so couldn't make it to Birmingham for #MuseTech25 but was watching along and laughed out loud at this point!
Sad to have missed this years #MuseTech25 (not to brag or anything but had a user testing session which turned out to be pretty amazing) but the smattering of posts suggest it was the injection of real-talk inspiration it usually is!
Keeping an eye out for next years theme… 👀👀👀
That's a wrap on #MuseTech25. Thanks very much to our sponsors Bloomberg, Manifesto and Numiko, to Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum for hosting us and to everyone who joined us in person or online
The final #MuseTech25 session is a live version of the MCG's email discussion list, chaired by Russell Stearman. Q&A topics range from alternatives to Cloudflare/AWS to predicting the role of the website for museums in the future.
Join our email list here museumscomputergroup.org.uk/join/mcg-com...
Life after X: @joevaughan.net from @themerl.bsky.social on absolute units and leaving Elon Musk's Twitter for a new home in Bluesky #MuseTech25
Our final session kicks off with a sponsor talk from Cheryl Kwok of Bloomberg @bloomberglp.bsky.social on how museums can make themselves more accessible and discoverable #MuseTech25
"Digital Goldilocks" is the BEST term we've heard all year!
Thanks Rachel Coldicutt we're all off to change our job titles this afternoon #MuseTech25
Screens showing Fully Automated Luxury Communism
First time I've seen Aaron mentioned at a museum conference. #MuseTech25
"Who are the technologies you are building, buying, adopting really benefitting?" #MuseTech25
"It has never been more important to be looking after digital material, you need to hold them very preciously" #MuseTech25
Our keynote speaker this year is Rachel Coldicutt OBE
It would be impossible to fit her impressive CV into a single post! #MuseTech25
"I moved on from the museum sector in 2012 because nobody wanted to do the things I wanted to do and it made me sad" #musetech25
#MuseTech25 We're now joined remotely by Josephine Chanter, Deputy Director from the Design Museum speaking about a digital roadmap.
Acknowledge failure as part of learning, not a source of shame
"Acknowledge failure as part of learning, not a source of shame" A great take-away from Ash Mann's talk just now at #MuseTech25
A circular flowchart with four stages: Rush, Misalignment, Under-deliver or fail quietly, and Move on. An arrow connects each stage in a cycle. A person appears in a small video call window in the top right corner.
How many of our followers sadly can relate to this slide?? #MuseTech25
Lessons go unlearned - no debrief or reflection, resulting in a loss of confidence.
"None of these issues are new" #MuseTech25
"A hidden epidemic of failure"
Ash Mann speaks openly about 'Beyond the promise' and how we can learn from failures.
"Digital failure is rarely technical it's organisational" #MuseTech25
If you have sample images from a museum, library or archive collection and want to see what metadata could be created about them, drop @aboutgeo.bsky.social a line! #FF2025 #MuseTech25
A presentation slide reads "How to make it easier for disabled and neurodivergent visitors to plan a visit to your museum" by Alison Bean from The British Museum. Beside it, a woman speaks at a podium.
Our next talk is all about accessibility with Alison Bean from the British Museum
"Users expect their own section or page"
"Visitors won't feel represented if their specific disability or condition is not listed" #MuseTech25
11,376 group bookings via GBOP 468,543 visitors 85% of advance bookings completed via GBOP
....We love a stat! Here's a few of the numbers behind this booking system #MuseTech25
#MuseTech25 Next up is Stephanie Clark, Head of Strategic Services, Substrakt and Graeme Ellis, Head of CRM, Science Museum Group
A great insight into how the Science Museum transformed group bookings across five museums.
"This was as much an internal project as it was a technical one"
Lou Barton presenting on stage
#MuseTech25 Our first sponsor talk is Lou Barton from Manifetso.
"The core truth: ambition blocked by fragmentation"
Museums need to look at what moments matter, in terms of the digital experience
"Define an experiment framework to clarify what staff can test without permission"
*waves* at @ukmcg.bsky.social #MuseTech25 folk from #FF2025 - it'd be lovely to see more museum presentations at #FF2026 - and the #DH2026 call for proposals is still open dh2026.adho.org/cfp/ - the conference is in Korea but remote presentations are possible! #MuseTech #AI4LAM #DigitalHumanities
#MuseTech25 is now underway! Join in the conversation through the day 😊
Our chairman @alec-c-ward.bsky.social from The Audience Agency is currently introducing our one day conference
#MuseTech25 is this Friday! For those who can't make it to Birmingham we have a £30 livestream option.
See the full programme and book your tickets:
museumscomputergroup.org.uk/events/mcg-m...
The Logo for the Museum of English Rural Life: a large stylised M, with the name of the institution on its right in large block capital letters.
#MuseTech25 talk announcement: ‘Life after X: How Twitter’s favourite museum left Twitter’
Joe Vaughan, Marketing Manager at @themerl.bsky.social joins us to talk post-Twitter digital strategy
Learn more and buy tickets at museumscomputergroup.org.uk/events/mcg-m...
Will you be joining us at The ThinkTank on 5th December for #MuseTech25 ?
Lucy Hinnie from Wikimedia UK will be speaking about developing tools for Open Culture
The last remaining tickets, including a livestream option are available via our website.
Can't make it to #MuseTech25 Seize The Tech at the ThinkTank next month?
We now have a livestream option, for £30 you can join us virtually on the 5th December. Buy your ticket and see the programme on our website
museumscomputergroup.org.uk/events/mcg-m...
