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
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Category Archives: From My Work
Kind of (not) a Paleo Class: Interview with youth co-developers of Pterosaurs The Card Game
Ricardo Mutuberria, from the Museum’s Global Business Development, sat down during the press briefing for our current special exhibit – Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs – with a few of the #scienceFTW youth participants to learn a bit … Continue reading
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Student Reflections on the MicroMuseum Program
We spent a large portion of the final regular session of the MicroMuseum reflecting on our favorite moments in the program, what we enjoyed learning about and what most surprised us. When we asked, “What was one of your favorite … Continue reading
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Final Project from MineCraft at the Museum: Natural Selection (video)
Last January we concluded our 25-session after school Minecraft at the Museum program. Over the course of the program, the teens worked in small group to design a range of science-based learning experiences. For their final project, we challenged them … Continue reading
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First MicroRangers Walk-through
Yesterday, in preparation for this Thursday’s culminating event, the high school students in MicroMuseum returned to do their first walk-through of our mobile game, MicroRanger, using the new prototype. This is always an exciting moment, as after two months of … Continue reading
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Work To Watch This Summer: Live Video, AR, Folksonomy, and Games
This week, in New York City, we are entering the final days of the public school year and transitioning to our summer programming. On Thursday, we host the culminating event for the MicroMuseum program (more on that later), concluding this … Continue reading
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The Observation Station Tech Run-Through – Views From the Start of Something Remarkable
I look forward to updating you soon on the widely diverse range of fascinating work I’m engaged with at the Museum this summer. So my apologies for not spending the time now to give full content to the following photos … Continue reading
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Sneak Peak at the MicroRangers Prototype
Next week we’ll hold the final session of MicroMuseum, when the youth will present our prototype for MicroRangers, a prototype for an augmented mobile hall-based game about microbiomes and biodiversity. This morning, before the Museum opened, I took my first … Continue reading
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MicroMuseum – Session 16 – Extreme Micro-biology
In this session the we formed three groups, each researched a topic and made a poster to display the information… The topics were: The Hygiene Hypothesis (Could allergies lessen if we ate dirt and touched more cows?) The Human Microbiome and … Continue reading
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MicroMuseum – Sessions 14 and 15 – Starting a Museum-ome
Here are our last few actors playing their parts! The Environmental Specialist (P.H. Meter): Captain Polyp, a citizen concerned about coral bleaching:
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MicroMuseum – Sessions 12 and 13 – 3, 2, 1, Action!
Script written, we moved on to… Lights, Camera, Action! The actors practiced lines, each with their own coach, while another group designed cards and emblems for the scientists.
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