AI: A Museum Planning Toolkit
AI: A Museum Planning Toolkit
By
The Museums + AI Network
Dr. Oonagh Murphy
A comprehensive toolkit drawn from a series of workshops and events held by the Museums and AI Network. Authored by Dr Oonagh Murphy, Goldsmiths, University of London and Dr Elena Villaespesa, Pratt Institute
In 2019 the Museums + AI network engaged with 50 senior museum professionals, and leading academics across the UK and US. Alongside these industry focussed events we were delighted to throw open the doors to the public through a series of events called Curator: Computer: Creator that encouraged diverse voices to join the conversation on what AI might look like for museums in the near future in partnership with the Barbican Centre (London), and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (NYC).
During these workshops and events, we tested, challenged and refined models of practice, workshop formats, and development tools – this toolkit is one of the results of that work. We hope you will use this toolkit when developing future AI projects in your own museum, and signpost colleagues and peers to it as a free resource to support the development of ethically robust project concepts. The toolkit is designed to start a conversation, it does not provide all the answers, or indeed offer solutions, but instead it serves as a foundation for critical engagement with these technologies and the possibilities and challenges that they offer.