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Articles tagged “museums”

Online Travel

The Future of Travel Is About Connecting the Digital With the Physical

The digital should enable people to more fully embrace the physical rather than serve as a shallow replacement.

The Future of Travel Is About Connecting the Digital With the Physical

Media and PR

Skift Forum Video: Tourism in a Digital Age from the Met’s Chief Digital Officer

Connecting the physical to the digital is a key challenge for destinations and attractions.

Skift Forum Video: Tourism in a Digital Age from the Met’s Chief Digital Officer

Tourism

The 9/11 Memorial and Museum Has a Few Lessons About the Future of Tourism

Content plays a major role in the museum's rapid visitor growth, but its use of technology to engage and educate people before and during their visits will set new precedents for attractions to come.

The 9/11 Memorial and Museum Has a Few Lessons About the Future of Tourism

Hotels

The Midwest Hotel Brand Putting Beds Inside Contemporary Art Museums

21C's footprint is too small to pose competition to the larger players, but its execution on the local art and culture concept positions the brand as an inspiration to others just now looking to engage local businesses.

The Midwest Hotel Brand Putting Beds Inside Contemporary Art Museums

Tourism

The First Look at New York’s 9/11 Memorial Museum

The museum's construction has been filled with controversy as the deceaseds' family members voiced opinions on how their loved ones would be memorialized in, what is essentially, a tourist site.

The First Look at New York’s 9/11 Memorial Museum

Online Travel

5 Travel Startups Reimagine Travel Necessities for Mobile Platforms

5 Travel Startups Reimagine Travel Necessities for Mobile Platforms

Tourism

The pricey path to preserving a historic U.S. war ship

From cruise ships to war cruisers, large vessels are one of the most expensive and most difficult items to discard. A preservation group will have to spend up to $20 million on restoring the ship, a cost that comes after some $500,000 in donations kept it afloat.

The pricey path to preserving a historic U.S. war ship

Tourism

One of the world’s great natural history museums is having big money problems

The Field Museum is such an anchor for both locals and visitors in Chicago that it's difficult to imagine the museum's fund raising went as poorly as it did. It would appear that the new leadership should focus on the giving department.

One of the world’s great natural history museums is having big money problems

Tourism

Afghan art museum pulls itself back together after civil war tore it apart

The Afghan museum has huge potential to draw art fans as the country looks to a day when it can more actively attract visitors and grow its tourism sector.

Afghan art museum pulls itself back together after civil war tore it apart

Online Travel

Gettysburg uses apps to teach history during battleground’s 150th anniversary

On big occasions when tourists far outnumber guides - like Gettysburg's upcoming anniversary- tech solutions are the next best thing to live guides.

Gettysburg uses apps to teach history during battleground’s 150th anniversary