Category Archives: From My Work

These are posts that have to do with my day to day job at the American Museum of Natural History.

Live TV Coverage of Brooklyn Seltzer Museum on NY1

Posted on May 14, 2023 by Barry

NY1’s Roger Clark, at New York City’s local 24-hour news station, visited the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum on May 11th and 12th, 2023. It was the first TV coverage of the museums and the 5min+ segments ran all morning on Friday (I … Continue reading →

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Invitation to My Book Launch Party for Making Dinosaurs Dance

Posted on April 7, 2023 by Barry

You are cordially invited to attend my book release party for my latest: Making Dinosaurs Dance. Please read below for the details and how to RSVP (required). I hope you can join us! BOOK LAUNCH PARTY For Author and ECT … Continue reading →

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Guess Who Just Started Teaching Digital Design in Museums at NYU…

Posted on February 2, 2023 by Barry

My grandfather, Ben Joseph, received his medical degree in the 1920s at New York University. In the 1950s, my father, Paul Joseph, followed in his footsteps, getting his medical degree from NYU as well. In the 1990s, I took a … Continue reading →

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Unboxing My New Book on Digital Design in Museums

Posted on February 2, 2023 by Barry

Yesterday a box arrived in the mail, this time not from Amazon. Instead, it was from the publisher of my new book: Making Dinosaurs Dance: A Toolkit for Digital Design in Museums. It’s such a thrilling experience to receive a … Continue reading →

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MuseumNext Presentation 2: Failing Forward: Museum game Fails and what we learned from them

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Barry

In my previous post I shared video and poems from my first presentation this week at MuseumNext’s conference on games and museums. This post is about how we closed out the event with Failing Forward: 10 favorite Museum game Fails … Continue reading →

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DECEMBER 2021 BJC NEWSLETTER: My Year in Review

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Barry

This fall I began to send out monthly newsletters about my work across a wide range of fields. If you would like to receive these (about my work, but there are also ones about my two upcoming books), please sign … Continue reading →

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Announcing development of new RAND racial equity policy games

Posted on December 22, 2021 by Barry

I can finally announce my new partnership with the Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy (CAREP) at the RAND Corporation to produce games about racial equity policy. Phew – it was hard keeping this one a secret! What is RAND, … Continue reading →

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Video: The Revolution Has Been Digitized: MicroRangers, Youth Programs, and a Toolkit for the Future of Museums

Posted on October 21, 2021 by Barry

Can teenagers co-design new digital experiences for museums? For six years at the American Museum of Natural History, we did just that. This week I was delighted to present how at the MuseumNext’s Digital Learning Summit. Named after an earlier … Continue reading →

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Invitation to be an early reader on my 2022 book on digital design in museums

Posted on October 17, 2021 by Barry

If you haven’t heard, I have a book coming out next year on digital design in museums (from the American Alliance of Museums with Rowman & Littlefield in August, 2022). Having recently completed my first draft, I am now looking … Continue reading →

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Where to catch me this week at MuseumNext and MCN

Posted on October 15, 2021 by Barry

You know what they say: when it rains, it pours. I haven’t been to a conference in months – last August’s Play Make Learn Conference and, before that, MuseWeb in April. Next week, however, I am set to attend two! … Continue reading →

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