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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

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Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. Yes and no.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. They may employ local artists to help create visitor experiences. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Answers to the Ten Questions I am Most Often Asked

Museum 2.0

Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. Yes and no.