PUBLICATIONS
Our research and tools can help programme initiators and facilitators design their projects, museum practitioners map their hybrid journeys, and funding and research bodies develop better-attended funding schemes and programmes in the future.
Holistic Visitor Journey Model: Combining Physical, Digital, and Emotional Engagement in Museums
This first public white paper of Future Museum project summarises key findings on how museums can adapt to evolving audience expectations. This paper introduces the Holistic Visitor Journey Model—a framework that integrates physical, digital, and emotional elements to enhance audience engagement and foster deeper community connections.
Sustainability in Museums: A Call to Action
MUSEUM BOOSTER, in cooperation with the Angelina Usanova Foundation, hosted the Roundtable on Sustainability in Museums at Centre Pompidou. The gathering brought together 35 museum leaders and sustainability experts from across Europe to discuss how cultural institutions can reduce their environmental footprint while maintaining their educational and artistic missions. What emerged was a striking consensus: Museums must do more than exhibit change; they must embody it.
Museum Leadership House 2022: Redefining Digital Transformation in Cultural Institutions
The Museum Leadership House members came together for the first time in November 2022 in Vienna, where they have shared their strategies, ideas and visions on the role of museums in the digital realm, the use of digital content as well as organisational innovation.
Museum Leadership House 2023 : Reimagining the Value of Museums
In September 2023, museum professionals from 11 countries came together in southern Europe . Hosted by MUSEUM BOOSTER in partnership with the Institute for Digital Culture of the University of Leicester and ICOM (International Council of Museums) INTERCOM, the two-day event explored strategies for supporting resilient and sustainable institutions.
Museum Leadership House 2025: Museums in the Age of Quantum Change
Museum leaders approach the next decade in a landscape defined by accelerating change, political volatility, and rising expectations of public value. At the Museum Leadership House gathering in Dubai, directors and senior executive from across continents confronted these realities through the lens of the Dubai Future Foundation’s Global 50 foresight framework. The goal was to translate global transformations into the concrete challenges, opportunities, and leadership capacities that museums will require by 2030.
Breaking the Digital Ceiling – Key Insights from DOORS
Breaking the Digital Ceiling tells the story of the project through many voices – those of the DOORS team, the museum professionals that participated in the incubation programme, and the numerous experts who advised us or shared their knowledge in workshops, mentoring sessions, or talks. It’s a reflection on what we’ve done, and how our learnings can be used to design future funding schemes and programmes.
Self-reflection Tool
Designed as a print-your-own card deck, the tool facilitates a self-reflection exercise to help teams understand the digital maturity levels of their organisation and map out ways to improve their current paradigm.
Sparkle Report I
A tour-de-force of some of the most innovative digital projects coming from international museums, this resource reframes success as a learning opportunity and looks at the neglected impacts digital projects had on the institutions that implemented them.
Sparkle Report II
A tour-de-force of the digital pilots developed under the banner of DOORS, the second part of the Sparkle Report looks at the concepts behind these projects, their impact on audiences and institutional culture, and the challenges teams had to overcome during their implementation.