Straight after MuseumNext, I had to fly to Lisbon for a project.  By the time I got home from travelling for 10 days, all the Takeway and items I was going to talk about have been covered (and much more eloquently than I would have done!):

• Oonagh Murphy Museum Next 2013
• Claire Ross Museum Next
• Tony Butler A few reflections on social and tech innovation #museumnext 2013
• Andrew Lewis Ideas from Museumnext 2013
• Museumnext Collaborative document
• MuseumNext Tumblr of slides and more

So I went back to the MuseumNext program book to have another look to see if something different might jump out that hasn’t been covered… and there in the Welcome was the key.

If you’re like me, you probably missed the Welcome note from Jim.  In it, he describes the challenges he faced from his first MuseumNext 5 years ago.  Even with having a heavy hitter like Nina Simon the interest wasn’t there.  But soon it went International with the first brave delegate from the Netherlands.

And it has grown and grown ever since.

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