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
- Sondheim Week at the New York Public Library for The Performing Arts September 16, 2025
- 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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Digital Playground: MaKey MaKey
In a recent digital playground, we decided to get our hands on a MaKey MaKey and see what we could do with it. What’s a MaKey MaKey? I was convinced to buy one ($50) when I read the following description … Continue reading
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Back to the Future: From Wunderkammer to Contemporary Museum
In just 18 days, we will launch the four new programs in our first Digital Learning Week. Each is designed using a different digital tool to explore a different museum hall. Today I want to write about some of our … Continue reading
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Interview with High School Youth Talking About Youth Science Filmmaking
With funding from The Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in The New York Community Trust, graduates of the award winning Lab at Reel Works teamed up with science learners from the American Museum of Natural History over the Summer to … Continue reading
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Digital Playground: “Video Tools for the Future”
Jasper Visser’s blog The Museum of the Future just posted a fantastic round-up: “5 online video tools for the future: interactive, automated and embedded in the web“. They include: Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker Galahad Qwiki Wibbitz All are quite interesting and … Continue reading
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Digital Media at the new Museum of Mathematics
The new Museum of Mathematics opened up this month, in NYC. When I first heard of it, I was super excited to check it out. It’s like a Science Center, using experiential learning to explain scientific concepts, but the concepts, … Continue reading
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Spacewar! at the Museum of the Moving Image: The Challenge of Bringing Games Into Museums
This has been a busy season for video games in NYC museums, what with the acquisitions announcement from the Museum of Modern Art and the Meade Arcade at the American Museum of Natural History (an upcoming interview here will focus … Continue reading
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Registration Opens for AMNH’s 1st Digital Learning Week
I am so excited to announce the new slate of day-long programs we will run this January 22-25, for high school youth. Each is designed using various digital tools to explore different museum halls. Each is also designed to help … Continue reading
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How I Intend to Advance Digital Media & Museum-based Learning at the AMNH
This is my final of three transition posts. My first reflected back on my 12 years at Global Kids (“I’m Leaving GK and What You Can Do About It“). My second looked forward to starting my job at the AMNH … Continue reading
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Part 1 of 3: I Work In A Matryoshka Doll
(This is the second in a series. If you want to start at the beginning, go here) My role is to support the capacity building of my colleagues in Youth Initiatives towards the strategic use of digital media and learning … Continue reading
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Part 2 of 3: What’s In The Works?
(This is the third in a series. If you want to go to the second, go here, or to start at the beginning, go here) I am not a department. I am a cross-program resource, so to speak. So I … Continue reading