Museum in a Box: A Case Study
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Presented to senior EU cultural figures at A Vision for European Cultural Heritage 2025, I presented Museum in a Box as a forward-thinking company trying to succeed in making the best of the current state of digital cultural heritage. There's a second version with my presenter notes here: https://www.slideshare.net/george08/museum-in-a-box-a-case-study-with-notes
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Museum in a Box: A Case Study
- 1. “Museum out of the Box“ A Case Study George Oates, CEO & Founder Museum in a Box museuminabox.org @_museuminabox glo@museuminabox.org @ukglo Varna, May 2018
- 2. What’s Museum in a Box? What’s our business model? Commissions so far Challenges being a startup in the cultural sector
- 3. What’s Museum in a Box?
- 5. Our core mission: Increase access to cultural resources
- 6. For Museums: Send your collections everywhere
- 7. For Teachers: Support kids to build their cultural capital
- 8. For Kids: Let museums from around the world visit you
- 11. Our Company Values There are many histories Creativity is as important as numeracy and literacy Tech is a tool, not our master
- 13. 1. Commissions with GLAMs 2. “Make Your Own” 3. Direct to Consumer sales 4. Subscription to things you’re interested in
- 14. Commissions
- 15. London Metropolitan Archives, Abira Hussein 1 box Several workshops 1 collection, undescribed
- 18. British Museum + National Museum of Iraq 2 boxes (one in Baghdad, one in London) 1 collection
- 21. Smithsonian Institution Libraries 10 boxes 10 schools 2 collections
- 26. Creative ecosystem Smithsonian Folkways Audio Archive 2 researchers 2 writers 3 actors 1 recording studio 1 printing house Free sound archive
- 28. Victoria and Albert Museum 1 box 1 museum, and local schools nearby 1 collection
- 44. CHOOSE OBJECTS “Make Your Own” CREATE CONTENT MAKE THE TECH
- 46. We’re natural collectors CHOOSE OBJECTS
- 47. There are many histories CREATE CONTENT
- 48. MAKE THE TECH
- 50. Maker
- 52. Maker Museum Library Archive + LIFE Collection Maker Make Your Own Collection
- 53. MakerMaker
- 58. Customer Revenue ? Maker local performance Sale ? Maker
- 61. Challenges
- 62. 1. Impact needs time 2. Economic return on social investment? 3. Moving at different speeds 4. Royalties & open content
- 63. Our Next Steps
- 64. 1. More commissions 2. Make Your Own pilot 3. Seek investment 4. Sell more boxes!
- 65. Thank you. George Oates, CEO & Founder Museum in a Box museuminabox.org @_museuminabox glo@museuminabox.org @_ukglo Varna, May 2018