MCG’s Museums+Tech 2018: the collaborative museum

Don’t miss your chance to hear inspirational presentations and cutting-edge case studies, take part in discussions on the latest thinking in the digital museum world, and network with an international audience.

Museums+Tech 2018: the collaborative museum will explore how a collaborative and participatory approach to projects can create higher-quality content, bring in new audiences and provide important learning experiences for staff and institutions.

The conference is for anyone interested in how technology can help create progressively universalised museums with better access and broader audiences, and those who want to understand the role digital technologies and platforms can play in creating a collaborative museum.

Museums Computer Group’s events are an opportunity to learn from experts and peers, and have an excellent track record for featuring a range of emerging and eminent speakers presenting on topics that matter to you now.

Come prepared to challenge speakers, ask questions and network in a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. We will also host an evening event open to all so you can continue the conversations started during the day.

Programme

09.00 – Registration

10.00 – Chair’s Welcome: Dafydd James

10.05 - Venue Welcome

10:10 – Opening Keynote

Rhythm, Attention, Collaboration
Matt Locke – Founder and Director of Storythings

10.50 - Session 1: External Collaborations

English Heritage and Google Arts and Culture
Elizabeth Bullock – Senior Digital Manager (Curatorial) (English Heritage)

Lost at Sea of Wikipedia: how cultural organisations navigate the impact of working with open knowledge
Daria Cybulska – Head of Programmes (Wikimedia UK)

11.30 - Coffee break and networking, including MusePros Get Coffee

12.15 - Session 2: Creative Collaborations

Exploring the Potential of Digital Making: a collaborative project at the University of Cambridge Museums
Kate Noble – Education Officer and Ina Pruegel – Digital Engagement Specialist (both University of Cambridge Museums)

Democratising Data: How RE·THINK Digital will generate a collaborative approach to decision making with our visitors at the helm
Joanna Salter – Senior Manager, Participation (Royal Museums Greenwich)

Soundwalking the Museum: from UK to SK
Michal Čudrnák – Head of Digital Collections and Services (Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava) and Jonathan Prior – Lecturer in Human Geography (School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University)

13.15 – Lunch and AGM

14.15 - Session 3: Lightning Talks - 7 for 7

The People Have Spoken
Katherine Biggs – Lead Digital Project Manager and Navjot Mangat – Communities Interpretation and Research Advocate (both Royal Museums Greenwich)

Generous Interfaces Evaluated
Aron Ambrosiani – Digital Media Producer (The Nordic Museum) and Albin Larsson – Operations Developer (Swedish National Heritage Board)

Digital Commemoration: IWM and the First World War Centenary
Charlotte Czyzyk – Project Manager, Lives of the First World War and Katie Childs – Head of Partnerships and Strategic Relations (both Imperial War Museums)

Disrupting the Archive: the @lgbt_history project and the co-opting of Instagram as an archival space
Lauren Bassam – Assistant Producer (Art + Tech)/Masters Student (University of Sussex)

Clash or collaboration? Letting game designers into the museum
Owen Gower – Museum Manager (The Jenner Trust; Dr Jenner’s House, Museum and Garden)

Connecting Collections: exposing objects in a Linked Data search engine
Rebecca Kahn – Director of Collections (Pelagios Commons and Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin)
Doing us the Power of Good? Ethics, sustainability, and continuing GLAM reliance on Google and Facebook
Jon Pratty – PhD Candidate (University of Sussex)

15.30 – Coffee break and networking

16.00 - Session 4: In-House Collaboration and the State of the Sector

How the Serpentine Galleries Mobile Tours have helped bring about internal collaboration and organisational change
Rosie Cardiff – Senior Digital Producer (Serpentine Galleries)

Seeding A Culture of Collaboration
Sarah Younas – Digital Programmes Officer (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums)

Structuring for Digital Success
Kati Price – Head of Digital Media and Publishing (Victoria and Albert Museum)

Democratic innovation? Diversifying museum audiences through participatory digital practice
Jennifer Wexler – Digital Research Project Producer (British Museum) and Chiara Bonacchi – Lecturer in Heritage (University of Stirling)

17.00 – Closing Panel: What are the Barriers to Collaboration?

Daniel Pett – Head of IT & Digital (Fitzwilliam Museum); Kati Price – Head of Digital Media and Publishing (Victoria and Albert Museum); Rosie Cardiff – Senior Digital Producer (Serpentine Galleries), and Sarah Younas – Digital Programmes Officer (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums)

17.30 – Conference ends

Please note that our events have a Code of Conduct designed to let everyone have a great day.

Find out more, including the ticket refund policy, on the MCG website.

Use of the National Gallery is by kind permission of the Trustees and Director of the National Gallery.