Category Archives: From My Work

These are posts that have to do with my day to day job at the American Museum of Natural History.

Amazing video drops from 2024 Unreleased Games Arcade

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Barry

Gaming Pathways hosted the 2nd Annual Unreleased Games Arcade at the City College of New York on March 16th. 2024. This has been one of my favorite events to produce and a highlight of each year. This time around we … Continue reading →

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Barry’s Books – Summer 2024 Edition

Posted on July 18, 2024 by Barry

As many of you know, the last two years I have been deep into researching and writing my new book, which comes out spring of next year: Matching Minds with Sondheim: The Puzzles and Games of the Broadway Legend. To … Continue reading →

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2023: A Year At Work and Play

Posted on December 18, 2023 by Barry

Mark Twain once said: “Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” Twain, clearly, never worked with me! My favorite part of running my own consultancy is … Continue reading →

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Teaser for Video Game Exhibit in Harlem: The Great Connector

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Barry

How do youth use games to form connections with themselves, their communities, and their future? This is the topic of a new video game exhibit I am co-curating which will open in winter of 2024 at the Harlem School of … Continue reading →

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American Alliance of Museum’s Blog Post on my New Museum Design Book

Posted on July 10, 2023 by Barry

The American Alliance of Museum is co-publisher of my recent book, Making Dinosaurs Dance: A Toolkit for Digital Design in Museums, which came out in spring (use the promo code RLFANDF30 for a 30% discount). I am excited by this … Continue reading →

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Live TV Coverage of Brooklyn Seltzer Museum on NY1

Posted on May 14, 2023 by Barry

NY1’s Roger Clark, at New York City’s local 24-hour news station, visited the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum on May 11th and 12th, 2023. It was the first TV coverage of the museums and the 5min+ segments ran all morning on Friday (I … Continue reading →

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Invitation to My Book Launch Party for Making Dinosaurs Dance

Posted on April 7, 2023 by Barry

You are cordially invited to attend my book release party for my latest: Making Dinosaurs Dance. Please read below for the details and how to RSVP (required). I hope you can join us! BOOK LAUNCH PARTY For Author and ECT … Continue reading →

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Guess Who Just Started Teaching Digital Design in Museums at NYU…

Posted on February 2, 2023 by Barry

My grandfather, Ben Joseph, received his medical degree in the 1920s at New York University. In the 1950s, my father, Paul Joseph, followed in his footsteps, getting his medical degree from NYU as well. In the 1990s, I took a … Continue reading →

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Unboxing My New Book on Digital Design in Museums

Posted on February 2, 2023 by Barry

Yesterday a box arrived in the mail, this time not from Amazon. Instead, it was from the publisher of my new book: Making Dinosaurs Dance: A Toolkit for Digital Design in Museums. It’s such a thrilling experience to receive a … Continue reading →

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MuseumNext Presentation 2: Failing Forward: Museum game Fails and what we learned from them

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Barry

In my previous post I shared video and poems from my first presentation this week at MuseumNext’s conference on games and museums. This post is about how we closed out the event with Failing Forward: 10 favorite Museum game Fails … Continue reading →

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