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Digital Museums Reconsidered: Exploring the Walker Art Center Website Redesign

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I have a confession to make: I've never cared much about museums on the Web. I'm focused on the onsite, in-person experience. When smart people talk about digital museums and virtual experiences, I nod and compartmentalize it as someone else's bailiwick. And it breaks a lot of conventional rules about museum homepages.

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A Community-Driven Approach to Program Design

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At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), we've started experimenting with a "community first" approach to program development. Here are a few things that I think helped make this experience valuable: We started from communities' needs, not the museum's. For example, one of our groups was focused on commuters.

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Building a Culture of Experimentation

Museum 2.0

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. Some experiments fail.

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Guest Post: Creativity – Why do some places have it and others don’t?

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This week''s guest post is written by Julie Bowen, VP of Experience and Engagement at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. But it would never work in my museum because my boss would never go for it.”

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The Public Argument About Arts Support as Seen through the Lens of the Detroit Institute of Arts

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Residents in the three counties that pay the millage will receive special benefits : free admission to the museum and expanded educational programming. I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0 People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." hour at the Museum. I made $26/hour at NASA and $7.25/hour

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The Ultimate Guide to Volunteer Recruitment: 15+ Strategies

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They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. Your volunteers should be able to clearly articulate what your organization stands for and what makes it worth volunteering for. Optimize your current volunteers’ experience.