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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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

Who thinks social service organizations should fly under the same banner as those that organize the public for political change? It only came into general usage in the 1970s, with the publication of influential reports by the Filer Commission. The most common kind of nonprofit, the public charity, receives a variety of tax benefits.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

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. In 2003, writer George Scheer inherited his grandmother's thrift store and decided to turn it into an artists' center and museum.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2020

This may help to ensure that staff members feel supported in dealing with COVID-19 and are prepared to deliver a unified message to the public. . Consider alternative, digital programming . American Alliance of Museums: COVID-19/coronavirus Resources & Information for the Museum Field .

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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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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

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. Alternatively, arrange pickup times and locations where participants can safely retrieve their wine and cheese before the event.

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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. How many museums? Is there an alternative?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Host a Passover seder as an alternative to the rubber chicken dinner or spaghetti supper. Easter is a great opportunity to invite your supporters’ clan out for a fun-filled morning of treats and egg-finding in a public garden or space. Pass the Plate at Passover (varies; usually late March/late April). Families want to have fun too!

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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. You never say, "this place is so me" when talking about a generic public space.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

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. Does this mean Khan Academy is competitive with museums? She would be the best science center educator ever.

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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. Lisa was thrilled that her work was on display at the museum. I think it also sends a message that you don't trust the exhibits to engage the public and that, instead, you will bring in something else to entertain them.

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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. Not exclusively.

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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 remember the first staff meeting I ever ran. I had just started at the MAH as the new executive director.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2007

Ahh, the private moment in a public space. Public spaces invite distraction… and focus becomes a precious thing. One of the most obvious places to seek out this kind of experience—in a good way—is the museum. Why isn’t Al Green coming over the mental stereo in the museum? But it almost never happens. It’s creepy.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2008

Start an exploratory project to open a small, probably struggling, museum? Forget your grand dreams and try to weave awesome strangeness into your regular museum job? It involves an exotic museum bedfellow, the suburban real estate developer. At the time, I was Master Teacher of Modern and Contemporary Art at the museum.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It's run by Becky Mangiotta and Joe McCannon, two brilliant nerds who led national movements in homelessness and public health and then decided to teach others how to do it. Treating the museum as a community platform? I've also started tinkering with an alternate food-related metaphor for this quandary: sourdough.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

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. Alternatively, you might combine a silent auction with a shop by allowing buyers to either purchase an item at a buy-it-now or have the item awarded to the highest bidder.

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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! Following the Museum 2.0

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The fact that nine manufacturers are currently developing iPad alternatives is evidence that the industry is taking this tablet thing pretty seriously. Moreover, the iPad will likely prove a good platform for developing kiosks in public spaces like museums, or even your organization's lobby. New Platform = New Opportunities.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2007

Nik inquired as to how I feel about museum blogs. what's your take on museums that keep blogs? In general, yes, I think that museums maintaining blogs is an effective, cheap way to get changing content out to the public frequently. version of the news clippings tackboard on “Current Events” in hallways of some museums.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Get local businesses involved for prize sponsorships, and make it a public, fun event that everyone can come and watch. Alternatively, you can also pre-record your live-stream. The Brooklyn Museum let a local artist take over their Instagram for a day. You can make this virtual too! Feel free to use elements of both.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2007

This week, I heard about a neat renegade art/museum awakening project in Providence, RI: Urban Curators. By utilizing frames that one might expect to find in an art museum or gallery, viewers are forced to make connections between the urban landscape and the museum environment. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

In almost all cases, museums assure me that they want to be in conversation, that they want to be responsive, that they want to “really hear” what people think. Sadly, it was the second story that was about a museum. But MoMA isn’t ready to participate with the public on these potentially tough, meaty conversations.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 11, 2008

It’s an uncomfortable truth which is forcing me to examine my arguments for inclusivity, access, and populism in museums. I realize that I have more frequently advocated for Yellowstone-style museums than Grand Teton-style ones. I like my parks hard to access, sparsely populated, and minimal in services. They are elitist jerks!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

We catalog items by everyone who contributed—writers, editors, typesetters, photographers, interns—and link those people together in our catalog so that users can trace the connections between contributors as they move from one publication to the next. We’ve been doing this for close to five years and have accumulated over 2,000 publications.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Today, Museum 2.0 I 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 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 and watched the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. Why would an art museum create an ARG? And the "stuff" of the game is real stuff, artifacts created by players and sent to the museum. Coincidence?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

In 2006, their publication Next proclaimed that the Weston Innovation Centre, and the accompanying Agents of Change initiative, represented the “new” face of the Ontario Science Centre. Most visitor-generated museum experiences are about creating, not curating, content. Why not museums? This is where things get interesting.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The interview includes stories about some of his projects, and a delving into questions about what makes viral content compelling, how to draw people into an uncomfortable environment, and ways that art--or museum content--can become more pervasive by being hidden in the corners of life. What do you think has made you successful?

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Those words, and so many more beautiful thoughts and tributes about Simone, can be found on almost every fundraising blog, publication, and social media feed. The board meetings alternated between the United States and the UK. Instead, I am going to go down a different and very special path. Part Two – Personal Friendship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2011

Or alternatively, if your organization is starting with something larger, like a research paper or an entire season for a performing arts program, think about how to create smaller chunks of shareable content. It is critical to include the voice of everyone, not just public relations or marketing. They suggest busting silos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

What should be measured are shifts in awareness, comprehension, attitude and behavior related to donations, purchase, branding, reputation, public policy, employee engagement, and other shifts in audience beliefs or behaviors related to SMART objectives. Here’s an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

This guest post was written by Georgina Bath Goodlander, the Interpretative Programs Manger for the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The “Ghosts of a Chance” alternate reality game (ARG) ran from July 18 until October 25, 2008 and was a collaboration between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and CityMystery.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2007

Welcome to the first installment of the Museum 2.0 While every post at Museum 2.0 Elaine Gurian, author of this summer’s book, Civilizing the Museum , will also be popping into the conversation as her time and interest permits. And if you're planning ahead, next week we'll look at chapter 6, Timeliness: A discussion for museums.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Welcome to the second in the four-part series on comfort (and its boundaries) in museums, a day late but just as tasty. I came out of it truly amazed by the power of the museum—not just to elicit laughter, but also to induce bizarre and voluntary acts of silliness in front of and with strangers. By sending people on missions.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

The longer I consult with museums and cultural institutions, the more time I spend peering into people's eyes, wondering: do folks here feel able to innovate? Instead, Light defines innovation as "an act that challenges the prevailing wisdom as it creates public value." Is this a place where staff members are comfortable taking risks?

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