As I mentioned in my previous post about mapping our digital landscape, we’re not letting the lack of CRM completely get us down. We have…
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As a follow-up to our ASK-guided gallery tours for Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving and Pride Month, the ASK team has created a new…
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In 2017 we partnered with educational start-up Duolingo and their new digital platform, Tinycards, to produce fun and educational art history flashcard decks. 2 years,…
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“Celebrate Pride Month! Our team of friendly experts guide you on a tour of LGBTQ+ artists and themes throughout the Museum via text message, chatting…
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In my last post I detailed how I knitted together thematic connections across different collections and what effect in-gallery labels have on object engagement, but…
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While I wanted to learn more about visitors complete interactions through the app, without the ability to systematically dive into chats, I chose to focus…
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I ended my last post with a brief exploration of what people are asking about via ASK. I was particularly interested in going beyond the…
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During my first semester as the Pratt Visitor Experience & Engagement fellow I was able to learn a significant amount about ASK user behavior—despite limitations…
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In my last post, I laid out some of the challenges working with the current metrics dashboard and the data exporting process for ASK. Despite…
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Sometimes we plan and execute ASK-related projects on a long timeline, but occasionally a project will happen organically and almost take us by surprise. Using…
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One of the questions we’ve had since the beginning of the project was if ASK is appropriate for a mounted kiosk of some kind. We…
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This month marks one year since the reinstallation of the Museum’s fifth-floor American art galleries, formerly known as “American Identities: A New Look.” This anniversary…
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Early on in the course of ASK, Shelley and I noticed some really interesting patterns related to where people tended to use the app. While…
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In a recent conversation with colleagues from the Peabody Essex Museum, Sara and I fielded a question that frequently arises: which works of art do…
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In my last post I wrote about our process for deciding which collection highlights to include in ASK’s new self-guided tour, titled Highlights and Hidden Gems….
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Earlier this week, Sara introduced the topic of ASK’s new collaboration with our Group Tours office and our efforts to shape the content of our…
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If you’ve been following our blog, you know we spend a great deal of time focusing on getting our ASK app in more people’s hands….
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Since time immemorial, nerds have been listing things and memorizing them for fun. 2,000 years ago, the Roman writer Pliny the Elder published his Natural…
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Every museum strives to enrich its collection even further, but acquiring new objects is not always possible. Luckily, our storerooms have much to offer and…
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All of us were a little sad to see “Bird Lady” go, even if it is only for a brief period of time, but we…
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Perched high on a lift in the fourth floor contemporary galleries, Brooklyn-based artist Santi Moix is drawing directly on the wall with charcoal to create…
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Many of you may be wondering where our beloved Female Figurine, nicknamed the “Bird Lady” is. One of the stars of our Egyptian collection, she…
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Starting today, you can find the Brooklyn Museum in Google Art Project. I’m here in Paris at the launch for the second phase where more…
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In preparation for the exhibition Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk—An Introspective, conservators took part in preparing and installing Blossom, 2010, a recent acquisition to the collection….
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One of the projects I’ve been working on is Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum, an exhibition of about 100 of our pre-1945…
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After many months of object review, checklist creation, cross-departmental consultation, budgeting, conservation, design, research, writing, photography, editing, construction, painting, installation, and lighting, I am pleased…
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Elvis is at the Brooklyn Museum and not where you’d expect to find him—in the new installation of the Museum’s African galleries, African Innovations. Brooklyn’s…
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Textiles are a crucial element to the story I wanted to tell in African Innovations. Immensely varied in media, form, content and use, textile arts…
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One of the many adaptations that moving the African collection into the South Gallery on the First Floor has required has been adjusting to a…
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Recent visitors to the museum may have noticed some increasingly dramatic changes to the first floor—first, a new series of walls began to rise in…
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Thinking further about our unexpected cameo on Treme the other week, there are even further connections to our own collection that can be made to…
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I was recently alerted by Jenny and Shelley that our African collection got an unexpected shout out on a recent episode of Treme, HBO’s drama…
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This portrait by the British painter Thomas Hudson has just been added to American Identities, the installation of the Museum’s world-renowned collections of American art….
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Yesterday, a team of curators, conservators, and art packers and handlers took the last of our human mummies to North Shore University Hospital to be…
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With the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War it is a good moment to look back through time and how Americans have been depicted…
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Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? To celebrate, the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mayor’s office is hosting Poem In Your…
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