National Museum of African American History and Culture opened on the National Mall in September 2016. Today we will talk to some of the people who were thinking about the museum in 2007.
Curator Rainey Tisdale sees two possible futures for museums: they play a more interdisciplinary role for their audiences or keep going down the same path they're on, becoming less and less relevant each year.
From museums to mausoleums, we look at how cultures view their own dead.
The Inuits Robert Peary brought back from his 1897 expedition were treated as artifacts. What that meant post mortem. Part one of a two part series on dead bodies in museums.
At an art museum, would you rather listen to a detailed guided tour or just enjoy the art without any interpretative support?
Dustin Growick of Museum Hack finds that selfies can create a personally engaging experience within the context of a museum.
What will the museum icon look like in 50 years?
Go to the central square of any Soviet influenced country like Lithuania, and you will find empty pedestals.
Seb Chan, Director of Digital & Emerging Technologies at Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, joins Ian to talk about museum authority against the backdrop of the web.