Dive into the world of branding a major museum with Meggy Cheng, the former Head of Marketing and Branding at Hong Kong’s M+ Museum. One of a series of podcasts with museum people by For Arts Sake.

New research suggests how you can optimise income and position yourself effectively in the market, while maintaining accessibility. Based on the findings, Jennie Jiricny, Museum Marketing Relationship Manager at Art Fund gives us five top tips on setting museum admission prices.

Victoria Wallace from Leeds Castle shares some valuable advice for getting your visitor experience right.

At the Eden Project they ‘flex’ the product to meet their various visitor profile needs. They take risks with this policy of flexing the product and inventing new things. Andy Jasper from the Eden Project gave a keynote presentation exploring this policy and how they evaluate and make decisions based on that.

This article was first published on Research Access.  It discusses how the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is using the findings of a deep research exercise to move away from trying to ‘be all things to all people’.  The article makes reference to a presentation made by the Van Gogh Museum and TNS NIPO at ... Read more

The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) is one of the world’s largest and most respected wetland conservation organisations working globally to safeguard and improve wetlands for wildlife and people. The work of WWT is supported by a much valued membership base of over 200,000 people. In 2010 WWT embarked on a major piece of research to help ... Read more

NEMO is a Science Centre in Amsterdam, and one of the Netherlands leading attractions. NEMO wanted to reassess its organisational priorities and worked with arts consultancy Wonderbird to establish NEMO 3.0, the vision of NEMO in the future, and to set a marketing strategy that can support that vision.

Across the cultural sector, organisations are thinking about customer journeys. From the first piece of communication to their experiences of a venue, everything you do contributes to whether or not a good relationship can be created. In this article, Sarah Chambers considers customer relationship management (CRM) and what it should look like for arts and ... Read more

What can be done to improve the capabilities of arts organisations to both develop a strong and sustained customer/visitor base and build participation in the arts? This report examines how organisations can understand the motivations of our audiences and customers, and develop skills to create and maintain a customer base. It also considers participation and ... Read more

This is an evaluation report of Glasgow Museums’ community curated Curious Exhibition. Based in St Mungo Museum in Glasgow, the Curious Project was an innovative project designed to support and celebrate the London 2012 Olympic Games and prepare for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games by creating intercultural dialogue and developing a legacy of increased understanding ... Read more

This Marketing Society Scotland (2013) paper outlines an award winning campaign from the National library of Scotland (NLS) and Frame.  NLS is the world’s leading centre for the study of Scotland and the Scots. In the summer of 2012, a campaign that explored the story of cinema-going in Scotland over the past 120 years attracted ... Read more

In October 2012, Random International’s largest and most ambitious installation – Rain Room – opened in the Barbican’s Curve gallery. A 100 square metre field of falling water, Rain Room came alive through audience interaction with the thousands of falling droplets responding to audience presence and movement. This case study describes the planning, processes and outcomes ... Read more

National Museums Scotland formally launched its Museum Explorer mobile app in October 2012. The app is available to download on iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and challenges visitors to discover and explore the museum by tracking down nine mystery objects to find 4-digit codes to unlock special explorer badges. Collecting all nine badges enables visitors to become the ... Read more

Starting in April 2011, the Museum of Modern Art in New York asked its visitors to fill in notecards  “I went to MoMA and …” to describe their experiences of the museum. With the simple tools of cards, pencils and tape to stick the cards on to the museum’s lobby wall, the project turned into ... Read more

Over the last ten years, the Science Museum has used audience advocates on its exhibition, events and website projects. This has been to ensure that the needs, wants and expectations of its audiences are taken into account at all stages of a project and that the end product is one that is engaging and accessible to those visitors it ... Read more

In 2005 Museums & Galleries NSW found that there was little audience research undertaken by organisations within the state – and where it did occur, there was little consistent methodology. The Australia Council for the Arts funded a strategic audience evaluation and development study which took place over two years to benchmark audiences. This report ... Read more

This factsheet explains the advice and support that Visit London offers in order to reach more visitors. You’ll find links to further free online resources, information about partnership opportunities, marketing and PR campaign ideas, and details of how to get listed on the Visit London website. There’s also a handy top tips section for developing ... Read more

As cultural marketers it’s important to understand how representative our audience is. These guidelines offer meaningful and ethical ways to monitor the diversity of an audience – going beyond simply a ‘tick box’ exercise. You’ll find advice on planning, collecting information, representative sampling, and questionnaire design. It covers how to monitor ethnicity and disability, young ... Read more

This short but useful glossary provides an explanation of some of the most commonly occurring terms used within the field of cultural tourism. You’ll find a list of terminology and definitions – a must for anyone who has cultural tourists as a priority audience group.

Discover various ways that you can segment cultural tourists and explore motivational trends in cultural tourism in this handy factsheet from Audiences London.