Interviews

We sat down with Jonathan Hicken of the MAH to learn the secret ingredient to their ultra-successful fundraising events. Keep reading to find out more!

We headed down to the Lancaster Museum of Art and History for a fantastic workshop. Hear how it went straight from our SF crew.

One dollar can buy a surprising number of things. There are dollar stores, dollar menus, and even dollar beer nights at professional sporting events. There’s also dollar admission at the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia.

Historic hoies aren’t always known for unique programming or being a community center, but Hegeler Carus Mansion in LaSalle, Illinois is working to change that. The “Museum Champion” behind this change is Kelly Klobucher, the Executive Director of this historic home. Kelly has revived HCM to be a mainstay in the area, multiplying annual attendance from […]

Local Projects is a media design firm that focuses on creating enduring projects through storytelling.  They utilize collaborative storytelling, technology, and a visitor-first strategy to transform museums and public spaces. We asked Nathan Adkisson, Director of Strategy at Local Projects, to talk with us about their work.  His insights shed light into how museums can […]

Museums are places where we learn about our past and imagine our future possibilities.  Yet many museums struggle with finding ways to not only connect to visitors, but to inspire them. At Museum Hack, we know that storytelling is a key to overcoming this challenge.  There are many ways that museums can tell better stories […]

By focusing on taboo topics like death and the treatment of the deceased, the Morbid Anatomy Museum is breathing new life into the museum industry.  Sitting down with Joanna Ebenstein, a founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum, we discussed how she was transforming the way guests interact with a museum – by offering lectures, exhibitions, […]

In this series, we feature interviews with our favorite museum professionals who we think are really moving and shaking the museum world. We recently interviewed Ed Rodley, Associate Director of Integrated Media at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM). He tells us about how to be tech-savvy in a discerning and mindful way in the galleries, […]

In this series, we feature interviews with our favorite museum professionals who we think are really moving and shaking the museum world. We recently interviewed Adera Causey, Head of Education at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga Tennessee.  She not only managed to make us insanely jealous with the view from her window, […]

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, in Sydney, has been working with local influencers on Instagram to successfully engage with millennials in their area.  Their exclusive event brought in creative Instagram photographers to capture the museum in a completely new way. This instantly exposed their gallery to an audience that may have previously considered the […]