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Dreaming of Perpetual Beta: Making Museums More Incremental

Museum 2.0

When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0" Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. The museum gets better the more people use it.

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Guest Post: Restoration Artwork

Museum 2.0

George Scheer is the director and co-founder of Elsewhere Collective, a fascinating "living museum" in a former thrift store in Greensboro, NC. In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it.

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An Open Letter to Museums on Twitter

Museum 2.0

Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. So here is a list of suggestions that hopefully will improve the way your museum thinks about using Twitter. Or it's rainy so you suggest I visit the museum? But not enough of you. It's warm out so I should go to the zoo?

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. People are now coming to the library to see it as it includes content by all the 500 participants from that night. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image.

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Another Exclusivity Paradox: Secret Gardens, Hidden Museums

Museum 2.0

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. Taking pleasure in hidden things increases when you live in an environment where everything is available and highly documented.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

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. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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Tattoo Parlors and Art Museums: Comparative Comfort

Museum 2.0

I'd love to see a museum offer temporary tattoos instead of stickers at entry. I was wrong; while the experience had its negatives, it was one of the best content-related social experiences of my life in an art establishment like no other. They are the kind of people we can't even get to the museum door, let alone through it.

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