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Press & Media has been created to share information, research and articles which discuss and analyze Media Majlis Museum's work. Here we talk about what we do and why we do it.

Research

We Asked, You Answered: COVID-19 and the media in Qatar

Jack Thomas Taylor
Behind the scenes

Creative Convergence: fashion and design in an exhibition
Behind the scenes

The Challenges of Ephemeral Works

Alden Cormany
Here the museum’s Registrar, Alden Cormany, discusses some of the aspects of ephemeral works related to the museum’s recent exhibitions Unraveling Persuasion and Is it a beautiful game?
Interview

Five questions with Michael Shiao Chen from Mighty Nice

Jack Thomas Taylor
Jack Thomas Taylor, curator of the exhibition Breaking News? how the smartphone changed journalism (fall 2019–spring 2020) spoke with Michael Shiao Chen, an interdisciplinary artist, director and a...
Interview

Five questions with interactive designer and creative technologist Bram Brogaerts

Jack Thomas Taylor
Jack Thomas Taylor spoke with Bram Brogaerts, an interactive designer and creative technologist at Superposition, an interactive design studio based in The Netherlands.
Audiences

Piloting evaluation in practice at The Media Majlis

Jo Hargreaves
This is the third of three articles discussing the museum’s evaluation processes for exhibitions.
Audiences

Developing an evaluation methodology for The Media Majlis

Jo Hargreaves
This is the second of three articles discussing the museum’s evaluation processes for exhibitions.
Audiences

How will The Media Majlis know what difference it has made to audiences?

Jo Hargreaves
This is the first of three articles on the museum’s evaluation of its work and exhibitions.
Behind the scenes

Animation as “mini museums”

Hadeel Eltayeb
Behind the scenes

‘Transient objects’—ephemera in Arab Identities

Pamela Erskine-Loftus
Behind the scenes

Exhibitions: What exactly is interpretation?

Claire Dobbin
Interpretation is fundamental to the way museums develop exhibitions, and to the way visitors experience them. But what exactly is interpretation?
Behind the scenes

Making the cut

Amal Ali
What’s in and what’s out of an exhibition? And why curators spend so much time answering this question.
Behind the scenes

Exhibiting film

Leona Bowman
The volume of digital material in Media Majlis exhibitions presents some unique challenges for the museum's registrar, the staff member responsible for securing content for exhibitions.
Behind the scenes

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Pamela Erskine-Loftus