For the fourth month I have looked at the growing number of museums on Twitter and the number of people who follow them. The latest list which contains 552 venues can be downloaded here.
MoMA leads the list for the fourth month, adding an impressive 4,589 followers since the last survey, just one month ago. The V&A in London has jumped from 12th place to 10th knocking Walker Art Centre out of the top ten by adding 1,227 new followers over the past four weeks.
As always I should say that I believe that the depth of the engagement that Twitter allows a venue to have with it’s audiences is more important then the number of followers any one museum achieves.
If you are a museum thinking of setting up an account on Twitter, you should check out my step by step guide for a Museum starting out on Twitter.
The Newseum (Washington, DC) is also on twitter. http://twitter.com/Newseum
all the museums’ followers combined, http://bit.ly/KeKM6 , doesn’t even scratch the surface of folks that follow @APlusK (ashton kutcher). sad.
Teylers (netherlands) has 125 followers
The Santa Barbara Historical Museum has reached almost 100 followers on Twitter within the first 20 days thanks to your Twitter Museum tips.
follow @ http://twitter.com/SBHistoryMuseum
Love your blog Mr. Richardson!
-Nora
Is there a list for German museums?
Would anybody know?
Thanks a lot und Auf Wiedersehen
JC
Hi,
Can you please add the Morgan Library & Museum?
http://twitter.com/MorganLibrary
Thank you! Great blog!
Wow, great work! Very fascinating to read. Thanks.
Laguna Art Museum is on Twitter!
Japan Society in New York has amassed nearly 1200 followers in just under three months, with about 100 new additions each week (diligently blocking spammers, I hastened to add):
http://twitter.com/japansociety
Granted we are connecting/promoting on behalf of our arts, education and business programming in addition to the Japan Society Gallery, as well as aggregating top Japan news, but that’s part of unique content strategy.
To your point about connecting to audiences, I would add that Twitter is also an invaluable and unprecedented means to connect to art colleagues around the world. To that end, thank you, Jim, for supplying so many new followees! –Shannon
The Asia Society is also on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/AsiaSociety
New Zealand National Maritime Museum is on twitter – @vnzmm
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Hi
Can you add the Cinémathèque française twitter (http://twitter.com/cinemathequefr) ?
Thanx
http://twitter.com/museedebretagne
The Annapolis Heritage Society in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia is on twitter
@odellmuseum
Sci-Port: Louisiana’s Science Center in Shreveport, Louisiana is on Twitter. http://twitter.com/sciport
Dear mr Richardson,
in your Sept list of the museums on Twitter the following italian museums are missing:
mart_museum
museoLeone
museo civico DM
Rgds,
Liv
hi,
we’ve just started, hope you ‘ ll enjoy it, i’d like to invite you to Krakow – Poland, our Gallery is open , see you:
http://twitter.com/ICC_MCK_krakow
it is new for us,
but we are sure to develop:
http://www.mck.krakow.pl
International Cultural Centre,
regards,
Joanna HP
There are many more in TN.
@A_M_S_E
@MuseumofApp
@StaxMemphis
@CMOM
@EastTNHistory
@knoxart
@HunterMuseum
The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk Virginia was not found on your list
http://www.chrysler.org
http://www.twitter.com/chryslermuseum
Mr. Richardson, can you please add Atlanta-based Spelman College Museum of Fine Art to your great list?
We are excited to be on Twitter and have attracted 195 followers in under a month! Thanks so much!
TWITTER I.D. @spelmanmuseum
Regards,
Kelly
Thanks for the list, but pretty disappointing that you seem to think only UK and US museums are worth listing… eurocentric much?
Would love to see the October list include museums from all over the world (there are plenty of Australian and New Zealand institutions you could include)
Hi Aussie
Thanks for comment, the search facility on Twitter is very limited so I have gradually built up the list of museums on Twitter through helpful comments and links sent to me, I certainly don’t think that ‘only UK and US museums are worth listing’.
The October list has now been published and does contain more museums, several of which are from Australia and New Zealand, but the easiest way to remedy any institutions I have missed is to leave a comment as the people above have.
Thanks, Jim
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