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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
I have a lot of conversations with people that go like this: Other person: "So, you think that museums should let visitors control the museum experience?" Other person: "But doesn't that erode museums' authority?" If the museum isn't in control, how can it thrive? Museums should consider, as Web 2.0 Core Museum 2.0
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 and museums. framework, and David shared lessons learned from the huge range of projects the Holocaust Museum has initiated. provided the Web 2.0 Absolutely. ventures. The time cost of Web 2.0
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Friday, April 11, 2008
For some truly great coverage of the Museums and the Web conference currently taking place in Montreal, check out the New Media Initiatives blog from the Walker. And next week, come here for a guest post by Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota reflecting on his experiences at the conference.
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. If these trends continue museums will need to adapt. Sharing Authority.or
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. The photos above were provided by Paul Martin of the Science Museum of Minnesota from their award-winning exhibition RACE. But in the museum, the distribution method is more personal. What makes an exhibit “social?”
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Traditional exhibition design, in which the museum has a specific story or message to tell, doesn't easily accommodate visitor co-creation. This realization--that a single museum voice was not the best way to tell a particular story--formed the basis for MN150 , the exhibition explored in this post. How did this project get started?
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
In the case of Minnesota History Museum's user-generated exhibition MN150 , sharpening the criteria (and tightening the language) for user submissions made for both better user-created content and easier decisions by the staff on what to include in the final project. They want articulated goals and expectations. again). Hiding?!
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Monday, August 10, 2009
This can be an incredibly technical topic, as it focuses on the ways that platforms (online, exhibits, museums) can harness the individual activities of many visitors and create meaningful experiential outputs that connect people to each other. But designing an entire museum that functions this way probably isn't your goal. exhibition.
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Sunday, November 2, 2008
Today, Museum 2.0 started the Museum 2.0 blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 I had heard some influential museum leaders raise the question of what a wiki museum might look like, and I wanted to explore that and related concepts. Thank you.
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Friday, December 19, 2008
Every museum has a number for its operating cost per visitor. Most museums don't strategically set this number--too many operating costs are fixed by building needs--but they can use it to assess how expensive each visitor interaction is and evaluate the efficacy of programs. $5.33. 40.21. 12.74. So where do online initiatives fit in?
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