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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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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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Where to Find Me at the upcoming MuseWeb Conference

Posted on April 1, 2021 by Barry

I love MuseWeb. When I started work in 2012 at AMNH, it was the only conference everyone asked me about. Are you going? Are you going? So eventually I went, and I found my people. Educators were still a small … Continue reading →

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A new interview with me on Museum 2.0 about games and museums

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Barry

I was thrilled recently when Seema Rao, who took over management of the incomparable blog Museum 2.0 last year from Nina Simon, invited me to chat with her about museums and games. As you’ll see below in this re-post, it … Continue reading →

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Coverage in Vice’s Motherboard: “How Games Are Changing the Museum Experience”

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Barry

We’re appreciative of Becky Ferreira‘s recent coverage in Vice’s Motherboard of a variety of efforts around AMNH to explore how games can enhance the visitor experience – from exhibit-based interactives (Flap Like a Pterosaurs), Hall-based games (MicroRangers), to tabletop gaming … Continue reading →

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Presenting Digital Learning Across The Country

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Hannah Jaris

The Spring conference season is upon us! Over the next four weeks, Barry and I are gearing up for at least 7 talks and presentations about games and learning in museums, blended learning, augmented reality and more, all based on … Continue reading →

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How Museums Prepare for the Arrival of the Future: an Interview with Elizabeth Merritt from the Center for the Future of Museums

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Barry

How do museums prepare for the arrival of the future, positioning themselves to be leaders in the learning ecology of tomorrow? For my DMLcentral column, I spoke with one person who keeps an eye on that horizon — Elizabeth Merritt … Continue reading →

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Morphing a Digital Classroom into a Museum Hangout: An Interview with Eve Gaus of the Field Museum

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Barry

Last March, when I was in Chicago for the Museums and the Web conference,  I ran around the city to meet with my colleagues in museums and libraries who were willing to share their youth spaces and how they’ve been … Continue reading →

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Designing Mobile Museum Experiences: Thoughts on the “Well-Played” App

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Barry

You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometimes well you just might find You get what you need — Mick Jagger & Keith Richards This weekend my 5-year old daughter taught me some important lessons about … Continue reading →

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On Leading a Playful Life: An Interview with Bernie De Koven, Part 2 of 2

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Barry

Recently, on the occasion of Bernie De Koven publishing A Playful Path (a book about, in part, how we can bring out the play throughout all aspects of our life) I contacted Bernie to talk about play and museums and, … Continue reading →

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