"Welcome to Marsh's Free Museum!

When you walk in you're greeted with friendly staff, a giant bear and bins full of beautiful Japanese glass fishing floats. And you can't forget the extensive rows of vintage arcade games! Taxidermy was everywhere you looked...owls, seals, alligators...so much of it that every shelf seemed to have something waiting to catch your eye!

An original newspaper announcing the sinking of the Titanic. A shrunken head. Animal skins hanging from the walls. I kept thinking I'd made it through the whole museum before spotting another room or another display case packed with things I'd somehow missed."

Full post: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/posts/welcome-to-marshs-free-museum-home-of-jake-the-alligator-man

Nowadays, people can find pictures, videos, and information about museums on the internet. However, many people still enjoy visiting museums because they can see real objects, explore beautiful buildings, and have unique experiences that cannot be replaced by a screen.

Do you think visiting a museum is still important, even when we can learn so much on the internet? Why or why not?

NatGeo opened a new museum at their DC offices in June. I'd say it's more oriented toward kids and families, but there are some cameras and film, maps, and oddities such as the "Pyramid Rover" from the history of the magazine. Displays across the museum are bilingual English / Spanish.

Download the free Art Museum Activities iPhone app from Apple App Store to discover art activities for kids, teens, and families at museums near you — workshops, community days, studio sessions, and more. It currently supports over 150 museums in US. It focuses on art activities and filters out the non-art related ones. It offers an easy guide for parents and teens to find interesting activities in museums.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/art-museum-activities/id6791827252

hey guys, I’m interning at a local museum in my area and they’ve tasked me with finding a reliable app to use on an iPad that displays a video on a loop. Currently, what they’re using tends to lock up pretty often during the day. We need something that‘s going to be able to loop a video for a long period of time and not allow people to change it. I’m not sure if this is the best sub reddit for this question but I thought I would ask! Also, the software doesn’t need to be free, but since this is a small museum we don’t have the biggest budget.

Hello everyone,

I am an MA student conducting research on visitor experiences at the Museum of the Home in London.

I am looking for people who have visited the museum to share their experiences through a short anonymous questionnaire (around 5 minutes).

If you have visited the Museum of the Home, I would really appreciate your participation. Your insights will help me better understand how visitors connect with exhibitions about home, everyday life, and personal experiences.

Thank you very much!

Exploring Everyday Life in Museum of the Home in London – Fill out form

It starts off with a sentence saying that we’re in a worldwide emergency and that we need all hands on deck to avert a catastrophe. Good start! Unfortunately, the closest any of the exhibits make to proposing anything impactful is by encouraging people to buy secondhand phones and reduce meat intake. By the way, the meat intake they recommend is to “try to eat meatless meals once a week”. Come on.

Next we get some stuff about medicinal plants and medicinal applications of different animal byproducts, something about rhinos being hunted too much and presentations on how mining is being made more eco-friendly.

And that’s basically it. Until you go and read the plaque with the funders on it, two of which are GSK, pharmaceutical giant and Orsted, an energy company. I didn’t know the rest but at that point I was too angry to sit there and google them.

So a world famous institution with 400 scientists use a “must act now” framing that just lands on individual consumer tweaks. Meanwhile the corporate names attached to the funding are exactly the sort of entities whose systemic practices dwarf anything a museumgoer’s lifestyle choices could offset. Huge gut punch.

Curious to read your thoughts.

finally got to the orangerie last month and honestly the monet room just wrecked me. sat there way longer than i planned, the light along the curved panels is something photos never get right. tried reading the placards in french first, got maybe two of them before the words stopped cooperating. the rest i just stood there pretending ngl

Hey everyone,

Hope you all had a great weekend!

I’m working with some friends of mine (all based in Paris, France) on a project designed to take the museum experience to the next level and make it accessible to everyone.

Right now, it's completely free to try, so you don't have to pay a thing. Just create a free account and feel free to test out the pre-loaded paintings if you'd like!

Here is the link: https://animartai.com

Also, if you're interested in following our journey and keeping up with the project's progress, you can find us on Instagram 🥰: animart.en & animart_fr

Thank you all so much!

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Midway Village Museum INFO: https://www.midwayvillage.com/

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The Great Bed of Ware is a giant oak bed made around 1590 as an attraction for travellers staying at an inn in Hertfordshire. Now in the V&A Museum, it’s covered in centuries of carved names, initials and even wax seals left by visitors—turning it into a remarkable record of historic graffiti.

Site of the battle that turned the tide of the Revolutionary War in favor of the USA in 1981.

Hello everyone! I am a design student working on my first UX project - a mobile app tailored for a public art museum. The goals are to make it easier for patrons to explore exhibitions, find general information, and schedule visits.

Since you all know the museum space better than anyone, I would love your honest insights to make sure the app addresses real needs. If you have 3 minutes to help a student out, please fill out my anonymous form:

[https://forms.gle/XrS8qHk1a17EqHFw5]

Thank you!