New voices at the museum Asylum seekers as co-creators of cultural heritage Museums are traditionally places where history is preserved, told, and interpreted by professional historians. But history never has just one voice. ExhiBIT invites new user groups into museums and makes it easy to add new layers of stories to the exhibits. During the project, Vesthimmerlands Museum, in collaboration with the Danish Bicycle Museum, invited a group of asylum seekers to participate in an initial test of the ExhiBIT app and its ability to engage minority groups as co-narrators at the museum.  From artifact to narrative  When the museum opened up to new interpretations in this way, something special happened. An artifact that had previously been just an exhibit suddenly came to life through a personal story. An oil lamp became a symbol of escape, a sewing machine a reminder of home, an […]

A Cypriot Chronicle of Small Lights It started with a whisper of dust in the air, the kind that rises when the past is stirred. In Hadjigiorki, inside the quiet Museum of the Mill, I watched the slow rhythm of old machinery and felt something ancient breath. It was there, amid the scent of ground wheat […]

Creative and Engaging: Reimagining Museums, One App at a Time June was a productive and inspiring month for the ExhiBIT project. Two important activities were successfully completed: the pilot testing of the ExhiBIT application in partner and associated museums (Activity A3.7), and the Museum Lab training session (Activity A4.2), which focused on the use of […]

Walking the City Differently: Rewriting Larnaka’s Story with ExhiBIT On 18 May 2025, something quietly transformative happened in the streets of Larnaka. We didn’t walk the city as tourists — we walked it as co-authors of a new collective narrative. This unique cultural experience was made possible through the European project ExhiBIT, co-funded by the […]

The ExhiBIT app: transcending the museum experience The museum experience is an essential component of the contemporary society. It can provide aninterface for social interaction, a point of contact with the cultural and social environment, and it can stimulate discussion about social issues, thus establishing a sense of community and communal engagement among citizens. These […]

Embracing Inclusiveness and Representation:  The Power of Co-Curation in Modern Museums; the case of the National Army Museum and the McCord Museum  In today’s rapidly evolving society, museums serve as more than just repositories of historical artifacts. Embracing the goal of becoming more innovative and reflective of society, museums worldwide are embracing co-curation to achieve […]

Was it the jealousy of horses that made them create the myth of narwhal and defame the unicorn?Unicorns were well-known in the past in many parts of the world. Particularly in the Middle Ages, these animals were the subject of much research in relation to their origin and magical abilities. In the early centuries of […]

Co-curation, underrepresentation, digitisation… Challenges and opportunities for inclusive Museums In today’s multicultural societies, museums have experienced significant changes as they have progressively shifted towards a more ethical and comprehensive representation of their various communities. Particularly, the legacy of colonialism and colonisation has triggered a new understanding of museums’ roles and practices around the world, with […]