Wish You Were Here!

‘Affirmative, I poked one, it was dead’ Meeting robots @ Science Museum, London, UK

The best form of marketingWellcome Collection, London, UK

Out from Under – Exploring disability, identity and rights2010 Vancouver Paralympic Games

Design meets architecture meets urban planningMuseum of Contemporary Art, Shenzen, China

Exploring identity and faithMuseum of Islamic Art, Doha

The War TableInteractive Exhibit @ the Cabinet War Rooms, London, UK

The Pirate Shop – combined culture, museum, theatre , classroom and retail space826 Valencia, Mission District, San Francisco, US

Creativity & Design CentreBangkok, Thailand

Guerilla CollectingChicago Underground Library, Chicago, US

Rich Online Retail ExperiencesCultureLabel.com

The Living MuseumGreensboro, North Carolina, US

Urban, disruptive art playing with the museum conceptBanksy vs. Bristol Museum, Bristol, London

Urban, disruptive art playing with the museum conceptBanksy vs. Bristol Museum, Bristol, London

Urban, disruptive art playing with the museum conceptBanksy vs. Bristol Museum, Bristol, London

Reclaiming old mediaNew cultural museum space in the derelict Trouw Newspaper office, Amsterdam

Light at the end of the tunnelOliar Eliasson’s installation in the turbine hall, Tate Gallery

S-T-R-E-T-C-H Pop-up MuseumCentral Shopping Centre, Leeds, UK

Museums are all these things and more....

Museums are playful, serious, creative....

Museums are incredible places....

Filled with incredible people....

Doing incredible things....

We’re in the joy business...

We’re in the peace business...

We’re in the respect business...

We’re in the fun business...

We’re in the creativity business...

We’re in the tourism business...

We’re in the games business...

Museums are amazing places...

But there’s so much left to do!

More people don’t use museums than do

We have to break out of the 3 visits in a lifetime model

We’re closed when people are open

Online is no kind of substitute

Digitisation without a way of reaching your audience is worse than building a museum with no doors

Copyright is not a good enough reason not to do something

Holding back the processes of time and decay has a huge environmental cost

Many voices, many stories

Museums work best when they work as a coherent unit (silos are bad)

People who work in museums are human beings too

(Sometimes you need to look up)

Museums are incredible places....

Filled with incredible people....

Doing incredible things....

Nick PooleCollections Trustwww.collectionstrust.org.uk

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