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What It Really Means to Put Museum Collections Online
Putting museum collections online is one of the most common goals in cultural heritage today. It is also one of the most misunderstood. The assumption is usually the same: upload the collection to a website, add some images, and the work is done. In practice, making collections discoverable, accessible, and useful to real audiences takes…
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How Digital Storytelling Helps Museums Stay Visible and Relevant Online
Museums hold some of the most meaningful stories we have. But in a digital first world, those stories only reach people if they are visible, accessible, and easy to explore online. Digital storytelling helps museums bridge the gap between what they preserve and how audiences discover and engage with that work today. It is not…
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What Museums Really Need in the Age of AI
Conversations about museum innovation are everywhere right now. Artificial intelligence. Automated metadata enrichment. Chat-enabled collections. Interactive digital curators. But this talk is not about AI. It is about what makes AI possible in the first place. It is about the infrastructure that determines whether advanced tools actually help museums, or simply widen the gap between…
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Hello NEMA!
Museable is at NEMA – the New England Museum Association conference this week! Joe and Courtney will be in the exhibitor area at booth #37 all day Wednesday and Thursday with candy, stickers, and demos of our amazing set of tools for small to medium sized museums looking to tell their stories through collections and…
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Hello MCN!
Museable is excited to participate in this year’s Museum Computer Network conference. Last night our director of product, Courtney OCallaghan, gave one of the ignite talks. Her topic was small museums and remembering to continue to include them in the museum conversations at conferences. After Ignite, joe hobson, Museable founder, and Courtney sponsored a Special…
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Why We’re Storytellers, Not Just Tech
At Museable, we believe museums aren’t just about objects; they’re about stories. Every collection carries meaning, but too many digital tools flatten that into lists and databases. And here’s the reality: it’s 2025. If your museum’s stories aren’t online, most people will never even know you exist. Visitors choose where to spend their time long…
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Be Part of the First Museable Cohort
Call to Join a New Era of Digital Museum Tools Small and midsize museums have long been underserved by digital platforms. You deserve tools that are intuitive and actually built for the way you work – not software made for massive institutions with big teams and even bigger budgets. That’s why we created Museable. Museable…
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Happy 20th, Navigation North
20 years ago, Navigation North set out to make learning more human, intuitive, and accessible. Since then, we’ve collaborated with educators, cultural institutions, and mission-driven teams to build tools that matter. Today, we celebrate two decades of purpose-driven impact—and a quiet shift toward what’s next. Our work is evolving, and so is our focus. Museable…
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The Museable Roadmap: What’s Coming, and Why It Matters
At Museable, we believe small and midsize museums deserve the same digital power and polish as the world’s biggest institutions—without needing an IT department to make it happen. We’re building toward that future. Not in the abstract. Not in five years. But right now, step by step, with care, intention, and input from the museums…
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Why Museums Need Better Digital Tools
Most museums today are expected to “go digital”—but very few are given the tools that actually make that possible. Especially smaller museums. Too often, what’s out there is expensive, hard to use, and built for institutions with entire tech teams. The reality for many small museums is very different: limited budgets, no dedicated digital staff,…
