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The Art Engager Podcast with Claire Bown is your go-to resource for creating engaging experiences in museums and cultural spaces. Explore practices that deepen connections with art, objects, people and ideas. Learn techniques to spark curiosity, foster dialogue, and transform how you engage with your audience. Each episode offers practical insights to enhance your skills and bring your museum experiences to life.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Art Engager Podcast with Claire Bown is your go-to resource for creating engaging experiences in museums and cultural spaces. Explore practices that deepen connections with art, objects, people and ideas. Learn techniques to spark curiosity, foster dialogue, and transform how you engage with your audience.
The Art Engager is hosted by Claire Bown. The show has published 168 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The future of museums with Elizabeth Merritt" (30 April 2026, 38 minutes), "How can museums build meaningful social connection?" (16 April 2026, 33 minutes), and "Reimagining Guided Experiences at Historic Sites" (2 April 2026, 57 minutes).
The Art Engager publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 40 minutes across 168 episodes.
Booking probability for The Art Engager is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Art Engager requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Art Engager's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Art Engager are Museums, Zoos & Historic Sites. The Art Engager has an education audience.
Claire Bown hosts The Art Engager, an education podcast with 168 episodes published.
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Episode #166
After five years and 166 episodes with listeners in 91 countries, this is the final episode of The Art Engager - for now, at least. For this last conversation, I wanted a guest who felt right not just for the occasion...
In March 2026, I travelled to Atlanta for the National Convening on Art and Social Connection, a two-day event hosted by the High Museum of Art. It brought together people from the arts, public health, research, aging...
Episode #164
What does it take to guide visitors through histories that are genuinely contested and emotionally charged? In this episode, I'm joined by Brandon Dillard, Director of Historic Interpretation and Audience Engagement at...
In this episode Claire Bown is joined by Dr Beth Daley , novelist, creative writing tutor and editorial advisor at Europeana, to explore how digital cultural heritage collections can become starting points for...
In this episode Claire Bown is joined by Georgia Close and Harriet Body from the National Gallery of Australia, alongside Naomi Zouwer from the University of Canberra, to explore how the gallery co-designed its Creative...
In this episode Claire Bown is joined by Clare Murray to explore how early encounters with art and museums shape the way people learn to participate, belong, and engage over time. Our conversation focuses on how what...
In this episode, Claire Bown is joined by Laurie Kilgour Walsh , Head of Programs and Learning at the Art Gallery of Hamilton , to explore what it takes to create meaningful, person-centred museum experiences with and...
Episode #159
In this episode, host Claire Bown is joined by Menka Sanghvi , researcher, writer, guide and founder of Just Looking . Menka’s work explores attention through science, culture and creativity, and encourages us to slow...
In this special episode created in collaboration with NEMO – the Network of European Museum Organisations , I’m sharing voices and ideas from the 2025 NEMO European Museum Conference ‘Who Cares? Museums, Wellbeing and...
In this episode of The Art Engager , I’m talking with Dr Elizabeth (Zab) Johnson, Executive Director of the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative and a visual neuroscientist whose work explores the intersection of art...
In today's solo episode, host Claire Bown celebrates the one-year anniversary of The Art Engager book with our first-ever Ask Me Anything format. She answers 10 practical questions from listeners about facilitating...
In this episode of The Art Engager Claire Bown talks with Tina Demirdjian, a poet and educator who has spent over 30 years transforming how people connect with poetry and visual art. Tina is someone who in her own words...
In this episode of The Art Engager , Claire Bown talks with Ciaron Wilkinson, Head of Partnerships and Engagement at Manchester Museum — one of the UK’s largest university museums and recent winner of European Museum of...
In today's solo episode, host Claire Bown shares practical strategies for overcoming the most common fears about inquiry-based teaching in museums. From handling uncertainty and awkward silences to managing...
In today's solo episode, host Claire Bown explores what wonder is, why museums are perfect spaces for fostering it, and shares eight practical ways to create wonder-filled moments in your guided experiences. How can we...
Episode #151
Over the past four years, we've explored slow looking in 20 different episodes on The Art Engager , making it our most discussed topic . Today, I'm taking you on a curated journey through all of these episodes, creating...
After 150 episodes exploring engagement in museums and cultural organisations – including 101 solo episodes and 49 guest conversations – host Claire Bown shares 10 of the most powerful insights that have emerged over...
In this episode host Claire Bown talks with Geraldine Collinge, Chief Executive at Compton Verney, about their bold approach to creating genuinely engaging cultural spaces through play, accessibility and joy. Geraldine...
In this 4th birthday episode of The Art Engager, host Claire Bown explores what active engagement really means and why it matters so much for creating meaningful guided experiences. She addresses what many educators...
In this episode of The Art Engager podcast, host Claire Bown talks with Sita Sargeant, founder and self-described 'Chief Troublemaker' at She Shapes History, a trailblazing Australian company on a mission. What...
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Director of Research, International Arts + Mind Lab, Johns Hopkins University, International Arts + Mind Lab, Johns Hopkins University
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