I know that everyone on the team agrees—spending time learning about the collection is a privilege, an honor, and a lot of fun. Training started…
Read MoreASK is a tool that allows any museum visitor using the Museum’s app to have the opportunity to be in direct and immediate contact with…
Read MoreI am happy to announce that we’ve identified and hired six individuals who are knowledgeable, experienced at connecting people with art, and excited to take…
Read MoreThe most passionate debates in our office have centered around how we are using geofencing in our upcoming app to present different information to users dependent upon…
Read MoreThe ASK mobile app has gone through many design iterations and has continually evolved in a quest to to offer an exceptional user experience. In…
Read MoreWe have an incredible opportunity in front of us; the folks who will be using our ASK app are coming through the door every day, so we…
Read MoreThe most basic goal of the ASK app is to connect visitors to works of art in the museum. Although the conduit for this connection…
Read MoreI’ve just joined the Bloomberg Connects project as the Audience Engagement Lead. I will be heading the team that will be answering inquiries from visitors…
Read MoreOn the surface, it might seem that our Bloomberg Connects project is all about tech. After all, this particular Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative is specifically for…
Read More1 + 1 = 2? Obvious right? How about (2 + 2 x 4)^2? That’s a little more complicated but not so bad either. Over…
Read MoreLocation aware technology as part of Bloomberg Connects is pretty vital. We use it to tell the staff answering questions which gallery a visitor is standing…
Read MoreThe dashboard—the web application our audience engagement team will use to answer incoming questions—is a complex application with many parts and before we hit the…
Read MoreWe are excited to announce that the Brooklyn based design firm, SITU Studio, will be working with us to create a new, more friendly and…
Read MoreEvery year a gathering of hackers and information security professionals convene in Washington, DC to discuss how awful and broken the state of computer security…
Read MoreIn previous blog posts we’ve discussed the results of our initial user testing. In this blog post we’ll talk about the process and challenges of getting…
Read MoreFrom the outset we knew that the dashboard—the web application our audience engagement team will use to answer incoming questions—was going to be a huge…
Read MoreIn the web development world, RESTish APIs (Application Programming Interface) have slowly become the de facto standard by which different computing systems are used to…
Read MoreBy and large, most software in the world is made to a spec enshrined into immutability, then interpreted differently by various parts of the teams…
Read MoreEarlier this week I covered how we have been testing the ASK app internally. Today I am going to talk about how we user tested…
Read MoreI was very excited by the prospect of user testing in the field when I started working on the Bloomberg Connects project. As a web…
Read MoreIn getting our ASK iPad pilot into full swing for Bloomberg Connects we needed to nail down how we were going to present the answers…
Read MoreAs Shelley mentioned in her previous post, we’ve tweaked our comment kiosks over the past year or so, shifting them to an ask functionality only…
Read MoreBrian and Jennie have been talking about our forthcoming mobile application, which is one of the public facing components of our Bloomberg Connects project, but…
Read MoreWhen I started as Web Designer for the museum in January, I assumed I had been hired for a website redesign. Rookie mistake. As you’ve…
Read MoreWhen Apple released iOS7 in 2013 one of the new features introduced was iBeacon. This technology would now enable Apple devices to pick up broadcasting…
Read MoreIn previous Bloomberg Connects blog posts we’ve described the iterative process of determining how we can engage the visitor, enhancing their museum experience. The ASK app (our…
Read More“Three Simple Truths” from The Agile Samurai by Jonathan Rasmussen: 1. It is impossible to gather all the requirements at the beginning of a project….
Read MoreIf you’ve been reading the blog lately you know we’ve been taking stock of our digital efforts and making considerable changes. I’ve been discussing what’s not…
Read MoreAs Sara mentioned in her previous posts, we’ve been careful in this project to let visitor need pave the way toward an idea. It was…
Read MoreA series of internal meetings got us set on the path for this project, but we wanted to test it with our visitors. To do…
Read MoreAs Shelley introduced in her last post, we have the very ambitious goal of overhauling our visitor experience through an initiative funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies…
Read MoreWe are incredibly excited that Bloomberg Philanthropies has funded a three-year initiative as part of Bloomberg Connects and it gives us the opportunity to significantly improve…
Read MoreSince we first made use of our 3D printer, we’ve grown the number of things we’ve used it for, ranging from creating a participatory experience…
Read MoreRemember my post on Social Change? We’ve been evaluating our digital projects with a careful eye toward what’s working and what isn’t. At this juncture,…
Read MoreA few years ago we moved away from hosting our website infrastructure from its dusty basement to the Cloud. This brought a certain peace of…
Read MoreThere comes a moment in every trajectory where one has to change course. As part of a social media strategic plan, we are changing gears…
Read MoreEarlier this year, we started exploring how 3D printing could enhance the visitor experience and began by introducing it on that month’s sensory tour. In…
Read MoreAs I embarked on The Dinner Party Wikipedia project, my first step was to conduct a thorough assessment of the presence of these 1,038 women…
Read MoreI am just delighted to announce the wonderful news that this fall, Brooklyn’s acclaimed Michelin star restaurant, Saul, will move from its current location in…
Read MoreThe conversation about sexism on Wikipedia is longstanding. In 2011, The New York Times Room for Debate took up the question of why there are…
Read MoreAs I’ve been leading the current Wikipedia initiative at the Brooklyn Museum, I have recently started working with our curator of African Art, Kevin Dumouchelle,…
Read MoreOne of the best parts of working in contemporary art is that we often work closely with artists, and are able to build relationships over…
Read MoreIn September 2012, a representative from WikiAfrica approached us about working with them to provide Africa-related content to the Wikimedia Foundation’s websites. As the WikiAfrica profile…
Read MoreOur online collections have a relatively small number of visitors compared to the whopping 470 million unique visitors to Wikipedia each month. Every day, hundreds…
Read MoreIf you’ve ever heard me speak at conferences you know that one of our most successful technology projects is also one of our simplest—the comment…
Read MoreIf you’ve visited the second floor of the Museum recently, you may have noticed that it looks considerably more bare than normal. Big changes are…
Read MoreIn my last post, I highlighted several of the many prints in the Brooklyn Museum’s collection that, like those now on view in the Käthe…
Read MoreThe current exhibition in the Herstory Gallery of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art features the politically engaged work of early twentieth-century artist…
Read MoreI’ve been at the Brooklyn Museum for about a year-and-a-half now, which is also as long as I’ve been a resident of our fair borough….
Read MoreWhen Shelley and David brought up the idea of 3D printing, my not-so-inner tech geek and my really-blatantly-outer education geek got pretty excited. As Shelley…
Read MoreThe Brooklyn Artists Ball is coming up next week and it’s an event that we are super excited about; this year’s ball celebrates Brooklyn and…
Read MoreMy first exposure to the world of 3D printing took place in 2009 approximately 500 feet under the Earth’s surface in a former missile silo…
Read MoreIn the last year, we’ve seen a lot happening in the museum space with 3D printing. The Smithsonian is working on what looks like a enormous project,…
Read MoreWorking together with the ARCE project team we got a great deal accomplished this season in preparing the site to open to visitors. Most of…
Read MoreOur last day of excavation was February 28, but we still have work to do. Since we are leaving Luxor next week, this will be…
Read MoreJaap’s wife, Egyptologist Julia Harvey, arrived on February 15, completing this season’s small team. Julia has agreed to take on the pottery, with which she…
Read MoreAccording to the late French scholar, Agnes Cabrol, these 3 badly damaged sphinxes sitting east of Chapel D date stylistically to the reign of Ramesses…
Read MoreOur first day at the site this year was February 6, so most of this first posting will be about how the site has changed…
Read MoreAs you may recall, we kicked-off a visitor study about Connecting Cultures back in May with an updated approach based on a bit of trial-and-error…
Read MoreSince the 1990s, Yoko Ono has created her work Wish Tree in locations all over world. In honor of Ono’s acceptance of the Brooklyn Museum’s…
Read MoreJean-Michel Othoniel: My Way just closed here in Brooklyn a few days ago, but The Secret Happy End (2008) is still on view in the…
Read MoreIt’s hard to believe we are here after dozens of artist and voter meetups throughout the summer; an exhilarating open studio weekend that resulted in…
Read MoreOnce we had our group of the ten most nominated artists, Eugenie and I set out on our part of the collaboration. We visited the…
Read MoreYou have been following us from the 1708 studios to 9,457 nominations to 10 nominees to the 5 featured artists. Let’s take a look at…
Read MoreIn late October, acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei and friends performed a parody of the “Gangnam Style” video by the South Korean rapper PSY. The video,…
Read MoreIf you want to see a fun window display go over to the Henri Bendel at 721 Fifth Avenue at 56th Street. Their designers used…
Read MoreSince our announcement of our top ten nominated artists in late September, Eugenie Tsai (John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art) and I have visited their…
Read MoreAfter more than a year of partisanship, pundits, and polls, as well as a seemingly never-ending stream of gaffes, accusations, and distortions, Election Day has…
Read MoreAs we all pulled ourselves together after the storm, those of us who managed to make it to the Museum yesterday were delighted to discover…
Read MoreJean-Michel Othoniel has noted that he is fascinated and inspired by fragile glass objects that have survived for centuries, imbued with the unknown histories and…
Read MoreAfter approximately 147,000 studio visits to 1,708 artists, and then 9,457 nominations, we have our top ten nominated artists. In alphabetical order: Aleksander Betko, Cobble…
Read MoreThis fall, for the first time since the program began, Gallery/Studio is going to offer a class in art history… sort of. We refer to…
Read MoreAs you saw in Shelley’s previous post, we were thrilled about the level of participation over the open studio weekend. At the same time, we…
Read MoreAs the nomination phase of GO continues this week, now is a good time to review the weekend and share some statistics about weekend visitation…
Read MoreOur borough-wide open studio weekend is finally just days away! On September 8th and 9th, more than 1800 artists across 46 neighborhoods in Brooklyn will…
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