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The Power of Symbolic Participation: A Story from the Skirball

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Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism. There was no specific instruction with the dots.

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Guest Post by Geoff Livingston: Creating Movements

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My experience has informed me over and over again that you will fail. I cannot help but think of the green movement, and its failure to transcend the environmentalist and conservation movements to the point that American households are doing everything they can to become green. Don’t make that mistake. And control? Get out now.

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State Fairs and Visitor Co-Creation: An Interview about MN150

Museum 2.0

MN150 is a newish permanent exhibition (opened in Oct 2007) at the Minnesota History Center that marks the sesquicentennial of Minnesota with 150 of “the most influential forces in the state’s history.” We had success with another exhibit with an unusual format called open house in which the visitor experience is pretty open-ended.