Alex Flowers offers creative consultancy, project management and delivery for arts and heritage organisations who who want to innovate and develop with the ways they engage their audiences
I was recently invited over to Amos Rex, Helsinki to speak at the Museum Theme Days conference about digital participation. It was great couple of days with some really interesting peers working in Finland. I thought I'd share some incomplete, sloppily captioned and edited slides from the lecture I gave which explore how and why … Continue reading Digital Participation in Museums and Galleries
How do you make the difficult subject of contemporary art accessible for people who have never encountered it before? This question keeps many museum educators, curators and editors awake at night and is somewhat a holy grail in gallery interpretation. Last week I was in Vilnius, Lithuania for a hackathon which posed the challenge of … Continue reading hARTckathon: a hack to open up contemporary art for your visitors
Taking a national museum out of the walls of South Kensington to those who can’t make a visit is so important for making sure that culture and collections are accessible to everyone. I want to share our approach with you so that you can try yourself and have some useful tips from what we learned … Continue reading 3D printing and scans of sculptures and collections in museum learning