Note: Free posting on the Events page is only available to the participating museums on Art Museum Touring. Others may purchase ad space in the adjoining columns.

How your museum may have its own free page on Art Museum TouringA

Art Museum Touring.com is completely free. Our goal is to provide our visitors a "taste" of what is on exhibit at each of the museums and public galleries featured on our site. To do that we need each museum's help to keep it's page current as exhibitions change. This can be done by sending us the show information and related images with credits; downloading it from a press section of your website; Flickr; or directly copying from the museum's website, and newsletters/press releases. We try to make it as easy as possible. Each new museum's page on Art Museum Touring will have the same basic look at the others. It is each new museum's content that makes its page unique.

Each museum's page is divided into three sections: the header with picture (200 pixels wide) and name of the museum; the middle section has sample pictures from what is currently on exhibit, or opening soon (images must be at least 350 pixels wide); the bottom section is the museum's contact info, website, exhibition info, plus anything else you want the Art Museum Touring visitor to know about your museum. We add a link to the museum's calendar. Major museum events are added to our Events pages.

The Exhibitions pages have a small picture from each of the museums' current and upcoming soon exhbitions. No need to send a separate picture unless the show is not one you want to use on the museum's page on Art Museum Touring.

On the Home page and the Index pages we list when a museum's page was last updated with at least one new picture.

Newsletter (newletter archives):
The Art Museum Touring "Openings, Closings and Events" newsletter goes out every Wednesday. New museums are featured at the top of the newsletter the week their page(s) is posted. The Newsletter covers an approximate 2 week window before new exhibitions, and/or an event associated with a particular museum and 2 weeks after opening for new exhibitions. The newsletter is now too large to send by email.

Details

There is no form to fill out. We will size images larger than 350 pixs (600 pixs for wide images) to fit.

Send the following material:

1. The Museum name and city with a picture of the exterior of the museum.

  • If not available, a gallery overview shot.
  • JPEGS 200 pixels wide

2. Up to 4 photos from the exhibitions with image credits

  • JPEGS 350 pixels wide - we will size the pictures for you if necessary as long as they don't come in too small. Images that are twice as wide as tall are usually displayed at 600 pixs. (be sure to send them at least 600 pixs wide).
    • Sending photos TOO SMALL is the #1 delay in getting museum pages built and updated!
    • If we are to copy images from the museum's website, check to see if the images are at least 350 pixels wide. Don't assume!
    • Hi-res is not necessary, but OK to send. Images just need to be good enough for the web.
  • Please specify any copyright listings, other credits that need to be listed.
  • Please make sure the it is easy to know what credits go with each image. We copy/paste what you send.
  • You decide the mix of the four pictures that will show on the museum's page on Art Museum Touring, e.g., they could all be from one major exhibition, or three from one and one from a second, etc.
  • Optionally, if you have more than 4 exhibitions running at anytime you want to promote, we will post ONE picture for each exhibition, i.e. some museums occasionally have 6 pictures since they have 6 exhibitions running.
  • For the Exhibitions page, we recommend sending a small picture for each exhibition at the museum, permanent or temporary. You never know what will draw a particular individual to want to visit you in person. The Exhibitions page images are 100 pixels wide. We will size larger images down.
  • You can send photos and info for exhibitions several months in advance of when they will be used if that is more convenient for you. We will archive them.

3. The text section at the bottom for museum information:

  • Contact information: address, telephone number, website. etc.
  • Hours, fees, directions, etc.
  • Mission statement, general information about the museum, brief history, collection info, etc.
  • Exhibition list plus any info you want included about particular shows events, classes, etc.
  • Send any pdf's you want downloadable from your page
  • If you know your map link, please send it with your info (GoogleMap, Mapquest, etc.)
  • Send info as a .doc file, or other copy/paste format. Most of this information you probably have already available on your website, or in a press release that is ready to be sent out to whoever requests it. It should not take too much time to put together the information and pictures necessary to build your museum's page on Art Museum Touring.

We are always looking for ways to improve Art Museum Touring and are very open to comments and suggestions. If you have any questions let us know.

Tom Carris
Art Museum Touring
tom@artmuseumtouring.com
(865) 483-7167

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