Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Imagine you've just been tasked with developing an innovative, future-thinking national museum for your country's history. Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). The Museum directors released Blueprint as a showcase for these plans. Where would you start?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Seb Chan has a lovely, long interview up at Fresh+New with Helen Whitty about the Powerhouse Museum's new mini-exhibition, the Odditoreum. The Odditoreum is another wrinkle in the study of visitors' understanding and interpretation of authenticity in museums. I enjoyed listening to it (virtually, not at the museum).

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JANUARY 4, 2022

E-commerce has forever changed the way people shop, and your organization can use that to your advantage with wish list drives. Rather than asking people to donate material items directly to your organization, you can create a public wish list on an e-commerce site like Amazon where your donors can buy items you need directly online.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 8, 2015

I wanted to open up conversation about how we judge the relative ethics of various sources of museum revenue--all of which have moral grey areas. In the last week: 10,000ish people saw the blog post on the web or as an email. 3,125 people viewed the game. 610 people played the game. 20 people commented on it.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2014

"I hate museums." Imagine two people saying this. She''s visited museums, she didn''t enjoy them, she''s more of a sports person, it''s not part of her life, it''s not her thing. He didn''t feel welcome in museums, feels like they aren''t for him, he wasn''t invited, it isn''t comfortable. What''s the alternative?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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MARCH 16, 2020

W hen people are scared , they look to the leaders of their trusted institutions for how to react. A rts and cultural organizations rely on people visiting them for much of their income. Consider alternative, digital programming . The International Association of Children in Museums: A curious guide for courageous kids .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. A tag is a user???s

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2014

Five years ago, I wrote a post arguing that museum photo policies should be as open as possible. I believe that the ability to take photographs (no flash) in a museum greatly increases many people''s abilities to personalize, memorialize, and enjoy the experience. Cameras weaponize an already unwieldy mob of people.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Spring is a time that sees more people with a tidy sum of cash thanks to their tax returns, itching to go outside, and looking for things to do around key holidays like Easter, Passover, Nowruz, and Mother’s Day. Host a Passover seder as an alternative to the rubber chicken dinner or spaghetti supper. BBQ for Good. 3 = $30 bet).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2014

How does this question play out in museums? At the 2013 American Alliance of Museums annual conference, a group of exhibition designers explored authenticity in a session called Is it Real? They explored a huge range of museum objects and grey areas of "realness." To remake a thing correctly is to discover its essence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Each year they bring together diverse, passionate people for a sleep-away camp for adults where they learn together through active, creative workshops and activities.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Last month, I had the good fortune to join a few brilliant people for a " Dinner-vention " about the future of the arts in America. Like a lot of people , I am incredibly frustrated by organizations floating on endowments that allow them to sail on regardless of impact or community relevance. What''s the alternative to this waste?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When you find a bar with your favorite song on the jukebox, or a museum room that feels like your grandmother's living room, you suddenly feel a strong affinity and are able to see yourself reflected in the space. It may be great for a natural refuge to remain hidden, but that sounds like a disaster for a restaurant or museum.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

And then Ian David Moss pulls it together with an interesting question about whether we're too focused on how to support and shift institutions instead of how to engage and empower individual people/audience members. The Center for the Future of Museums maintains a good list of top ten resources on demographic change as related to museums.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

Two weeks ago, we inaugurated a Creativity Lounge on the third floor of our museum. It's a little living room in a lobby area that invites people to lounge on comfortable chairs, leaf through magazines and books related to art and Santa Cruz history, and generally hang out. Lisa was thrilled that her work was on display at the museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

What role does “promoting human happiness” play in the mission statements and actions of museums? That’s the question I’m pondering thanks to Jane McGonigal and the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM). Earlier today, the CFM offered a free webcast of Jane McGonigal’s talk on gaming, happiness, and museums.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

Last week, I sat down on a toilet in our museum and found myself looking at an interactive station intended to test a “Legends of the Stall” sign concept for the restrooms. Some of my happiest moments as a director come when I encounter awesome things in our museum that I had absolutely nothing to do with. Sorry for the delay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He described delicious as a “memory platform that helps you remember information with other people.&# And, that is precisely how I’ve used my delicious account that has 5902 bookmarks — as a memory platform to write blog posts. I hope he shares it. Now, I’m faced with finding a new memory platform.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

She's brilliant and funny and pushes people to get excited about higher math and the big ideas behind it. But Vi doesn't work in a science museum. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who are well known in museums for their excellent Smarthistory website and podcasts. the way the best museums do.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Last Friday night, my museum hosted a fabulous (in my biased opinion) event called Race Through Time. It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. Late night mixers at museums for young adults.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

The museum was in huge financial trouble. but I felt like I didn't have any alternative formats to draw on. My expertise was on inviting strangers to participate in public settings like museums. I had lots of creative formats for drawing people out, sharing stories, and working collaboratively. Take the lead.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Last week, as part of my museum's year-long Loyalty Lab project , we hosted a workshop for Bay Area museum professionals with special guests Ian Kizu-Blair and Sam Lavigne of the game design firm Situate. Ian and Sam design real-world games that encourage people to engage in ordinary environments in extraordinary ways.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Events are many people’s favorite thing about charity fundraising. Although this appears at first glance to be beyond reach in a virtual setting, consider breaking down each aspect one by one to consider online alternatives. 3) Cooking classes. 5) Online classes. 8) Digital download donation rewards.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

I'd always assumed that more representation is better than less representation, more press is better than less press, more sharing and engaging is better than the alternative. The problem, of course, is when you choose not to participate, most people don't see it as a noble protest. Most people don't notice at all.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

posted by Karla Lant Lead Writer, Museum of Science and Sustainability. It means getting organic, word-of-mouth buzz about products from people who others listen to. Every nonprofit needs to sign new people up for the email list, and entice new people to join the community. That is what will win them over.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

Relative to other museums, I think we spend less time producing an "onstage" experience and more time collaborating with community organizations behind the scenes to empower them to produce. Our museum is growing, and I'm always weighing different ways to expand our impact. I feel great about this approach.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. It is an incredible museum experience. The visitor is given a copy of her poster and the museum keeps a copy as well.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Few people obsessively reread the same book over and over, especially if the "next" book is coming in only 4 months. This problem is analagous to the repeat visit problem for museums. Museum visits, like book reading, can be an intense and wonderful experience. But is one museum visit enough to compel a second visit?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

This guest post was written by Ruben Huele and describes the scenario-based strategic process used at the Dutch Natural History Museum, Naturalis , to innovate the redevelopment of their permanent collection. Please share your own experiences with alternative strategic planning processes in the comments!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2022

how many people might attend, the kind of menu (no more buffets?), Many people are eager to be celebrating again, and your organization can capitalize on this. In the years before COVID, smaller organizations frustrated by the effort and expense of a big blowout event have always sought creative alternatives to formal, sit-down galas.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Some people are rightfully fearful of "dumbing down" their model for scale. Treating the museum as a community platform? I love asking people what they think the turkey and the bread is--especially folks who appreciate the MAH but aren't deeply involved. I've asked myself this a thousand times in the past month. Social bridging?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. Some of these people are professional artists or exhibit designers, but most are just talented folks with an interest in museums.

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2021

Navigation is what people do.” How do people currently navigate your site? If you have top-level landing pages and want to encourage users to interact more with them instead of the pages below, a standard basic menu may be a better alternative. Navigation and menu. Two words often used interchangeably. What issues do they have?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Nikki created "The Ministry of Rules" --a shadow organization that existed for one week during half-term break, staffed by visitors who served as "Inspectors" investigating, exploring, and poking fun at the rules that make museums and galleries go. I spoke with Nikki this week to learn more about the Ministry and their fun and games.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

You could even give it a cute name to draw people in. This is a great way to add urgency to the day, and remind people that it’s the perfect time to give. If you were going to have food, consider providing a suggested meal for people to prepare at home. Alternatively, you can also pre-record your live-stream.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. Which leads to the question of people: who is getting involved? But museum folks, no matter how much we want to collaborate, don't move quickly.

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