Hi. I am Barry Joseph.
I am formerly the VP of Digital Experience at the Girl Scouts of the USA and Associate Director For Digital Learning at the American Museum of Natural History.
When I began at the Museum I used this blog to talk about my adventures, exploring issues related to digital media and museum-based learning. I featured original interviews, thought pieces, and highlights from my work and those of my colleagues at the AMNH.
Starting in 2020, with the launch of Barry Joseph Consultancy, LLC, I turned this blog into a place to explore digital engagement writ large.
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- Matching Minds Published and Exhibit Launched October 10, 2025
- A 25-year career retrospective interview with me (by youth in India) October 10, 2025
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- Matching Minds: Book in Hand September 11, 2025
- Prototyping the Future: A 10-Day Dive into AI, Games, and Learning July 3, 2025
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Capturing Dinosaurs at This Year’s Maker Faire in NYC
World Maker Faire NYC is coming in just two weeks (Sept 21st and 22nd) and I couldn’t be more excited. This weekend-long festival (70,000 attendees expected) held in and around the Queen’s New York Hall of Science is always a … Continue reading
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Launch of #scienceFTW: Building Card Games at The American Museum of Natural History
Today I am delighted to launch not just the new Minecraft@Museum program but also the super-awesome #scienceFTW: Building Card Games program. In #scienceFTW youth will collaborate with game designers and Museum staff to build two new games about pterosaurs and … Continue reading
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The launch of Minecraft at the Museum of Natural History
Minecraft, the indie-success video game that has sold more than 20,000,000 copies in under two years, is now coming to the American Museum of Natural History. Its players learn how to “mine” natural resources in their unique, resource-rich world and … Continue reading
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A Close Look at the Development of Planetmania, a Museum-Based Mobile App: an interview with developer David Schaller
Last Fall, when I first began working in a Natural History museum, I started to look for examples of customized museum mobile apps. One of the first that came across my radar was Planetmania. There are some things I like … Continue reading
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Using Card Games to Bring a Sense of Play to Informal Science Learning
This Fall the Museum will be launching our first Science Card Game program (more details later and registration notification sign-up here). This grew, in part, from a number of Digital Playgrounds I blogged about last spring, such as the awesome … Continue reading
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Teaching Paleontology at Night at the Museum through Digital Fabrication
For sure, one of the coolest things about working at the Museum is getting to be involved with the sleepovers, otherwise known as Night at the Museum. Sorry, it is not like the movie – the dioramas do not come … Continue reading
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Official Video From Capturing Dinosaurs
I am thrilled to be able to now share with all of you the official video from our Capturing Dinosaurs program, which concluded just over two weeks ago. The Communications department did a fantastic job of capturing the excitement experienced … Continue reading
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A Trip to Shapeways: Visting the Future of Digital Printing
Last May, a number of us from around the Museum took a field trip to Long Island City, an industrialized section of western Queens, walking over bridges and past train depots to get to a nondescript warehouse-style building whose occupants … Continue reading
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Gizmodo piece on Capturing Dinosaurs
Capturing Dinosaurs concluded last Friday with an amazing presentation by the youth. It was all youth led, full of science, 3D fabricated fossils and bad, very bad, dinosaur jokes (Why did the dinosaur cross the street? Because the chicken hadn’t … Continue reading
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Vine’s from Week One of Capturing Dinosaurs
Vine, the 6-second looping video app from Twitter, even strikes me as silly sometimes. But that doesn’t stop me from using it all the time. Below are some Vine’s from this week’s Capturing Dinosaurs program. I like them as a … Continue reading
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