After eight happy years, George has decided to leave Museum in a Box. In November 2022, she became the Co-Founder and first Executive Director of the new Flickr Foundation, and that seems like a natural transition moment. Adrian McEwen, Tech Lead and original team member, has graciously decided to take over running the business. George: […]
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Version 2 of this post, published Mon 18 October, 2021:Crisis averted! We’ve fixed the really big problem by creating a DNS-level with an alternate encryption certificate already living on the Raspberry Pi inside our Boxes. So, it’s the kind of fix people who haven’t read any of this will even have noticed. And here’s a […]
“On 15 February 1971 Britain changed over from the centuries old system of pounds, shillings and pence to a new currency based on 100 pennies to the pound. This change affected the entire nation, bringing people together as they learnt to master a new way of valuing everything.” The Royal Mint Museum in Llantrisant, Wales, […]
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Batch No. 2 is GO
I’m so happy to tell you that we’re nearly at the point where we can finally complete construction of our first blob of orders for Batch No. 2. It’s been a bumpy, frustrating, and occasionally dispiriting ride to get to this point. I can’t decide if I want to bore you with supply chain issues […]
Huh. Back in the Great Yesterday (July 1st, 2020) I wrote here that we were changing our pace, to thrive in uncertainty. COVID-19 had simply smashed us against the cliffs, and we were broken. Lying fallow, I called it, to sound constructive. Our plan was to cut our costs, keep the online shop open, and […]
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Thriving in uncertainty
We have news. We are going to enter a new phase as a company – to lie fallow. The last three months have been very difficult for us. We have only survived this long thanks to government subsidies. 95% of museums have closed, schools and teaching akimbo. The cultural sector is in survival mode and […]
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People are Making Their Own
Guest post by Rob Sherman about how people are using their Make Your Own kit. Thanks, Rob! It’s safe to say that all of us have a lot more time on our hands, at the moment, than we did two months ago. Long-neglected musical instruments are being dusted off and plucked or parped, and a […]
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WE WANT YOU!
Let’s join forces to make an amazing application to the Esmee Fairbairn Collections Fund, and show how innovative we can be sharing museum collections!
Hello! My name is Renata and I started volunteering with Museum in a Box just a few weeks before this little world of ours closed for maintenance. Starting at Museum in a Box I started by reaching out to HQ to know a little more about Museum in a Box, and the work that the […]
We established the company in October 2015, and transformed into a Community Interest Company in 2019 (UK Company Number 09849074). Highlights include: 2015 The idea was born at a residency at Somerset House called The Small Museum, in March We incorporated in October, working out of Hans Sloane’s old house in Bloomsbury 2016 Our first […]