This year MCN celebrates its 50th anniversary. Just as MCN has established a network of established and emerging professionals, #MCN50 Voices brings members together, old and new, near and far. In this video conversation, experienced professionals Angela Spinazzè, Principal at ATSPIN Consulting & Holly Witchey, Principal at Relevant Museums Consulting, take us back to revisit their first projects of…
This year MCN celebrates its 50th anniversary. Just as MCN has established a network of established and emerging professionals, #MCN50 Voices brings members together, old and new, near and far. This conversation between Paige Dansinger, Founding Director of Better World Museum, and Suse Anderson, Assistant Professor, Museum Studies at George Washington University, explores the role…
Brad Dunn, Web and Digital Communications Director, Field Museum (@badunn) and Gavin Mallory, Production Director at Cogapp (@Gavin_Mallory ) met for the first time doing this interview. They found common ground on doing meaningful work; where museums should be taking digital; their career paths, beer, and Patrick Stewart. Background and Current Job Brad:…
Matt Morgan, President, Concrete Computing and Blaire Moskowitz, the Digital Interpretive Specialist at the New York Botanical Garden and a PhD Candidate in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester share their career paths, the ideal skills for success in the field, and the state of the museum technology field. WHAT JOB DID YOU…
In fifty years, MCN has collected a lot of history. The principle repository for MCN’s records is the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) in downtown Washington DC. MCN records totaling nearly fifty boxes are spread across six record groups at SIA. These collections include everything from news articles and financial records to board minutes and conference…
At your institution… Do you design beautiful digital publications or geek out on microcontrollers and circuits? We want you. Do you get your kicks from collaborating through interpretive media or crunching data to inform your museum’s digital strategy? We want you. Do you work in a department 2 or 200? We want you. The MCN2017…
Partnering with Content Distributors to Reach New Audiences Friday, November 4, 2016 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Speaker : Courtney O’Callaghan, Chief Digital Officer, Freer and Sackler Galleries Speaker : Lucy Schwartz, Program Manager, Google UK Limited Do outside content distributors help museums and cultural institutions reach audiences outside of their usual fields? What are…
Last year we did a follow up blog post on the conference but instead of us trying to sum up the conference, we let you do that. We value our community here at MCN and love reading about your conference experiences. Over the last two weeks we’ve combed the #MCN2016 tag looking for posts but…
Thanks to everyone who submitted a proposal for the MCN 2015 conference in Minneapolis, MN Nov 4-7. The Program Committee has already begun reviewing abstracts and will let authors know if their proposal was selected by May 31.
Last year, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, MCN repurposed its planned in-person annual conference into a virtual experience. Thanks to the generous support of the Kress Foundation, MCN was also able to redesign its long running Scholarship Program to award scholarships to 10 qualified emerging professionals from the cultural sector. The grant allowed…
As a candid and welcoming community, MCN has always championed innovative sessions that are willing to take risks. Last year through the “Other” Category in the Call for Proposals, the program co-chairs created the option for attendees to “propose something else” to present in New Orleans. We actively sought out, encouraged and cultivated potential…