It’s easy to think that museums aren't relevant, but the success of the David Bowie exhibition at the V&A and the Matisse Cutouts show at the Tate Modern says otherwise. How is the museum evolving to meet the needs of people more interested in their smartphones than ancient artefacts?

Art museums are better with a guide. And while audio guides can be useful for additional context, they can also be clunky and feel outdated. One gallery in San Francisco is moving to wearables to augment the experience instead.

Across the US, over a quarter of museums are seeing a decline in attendance. While some blame the recession, museum geek Mark Rosen has a more sobering reason – museums are run by dull people. Rather than complain, Rosen created his own work-around, and started the Museum Hack.

Rome is unarguably the world’s capital of classical art, attracting 4.5 million tourists every year. To many people, art is inaccessible and ‘high-brow’, but Rome’s MAXXI gallery is set to change people’s perceptions of it with its exhibition of sound - and nothing else.