Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Visitors are not building exhibits from scratch or designing their own science experiments. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. That said, the fact that we work with contemporary artists can also create a lot of stress in our institutional systems.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat. What makes Machine special is its brand of humor and accessibility, combined with a real dedication to experimenting on the borders of art, science, and ideas.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2011

She's just started a one year experiment in savoring and serving the world. This picture is from the "Chalk Art Phase" last summer in which we would write loving messages on chalk - Lilly is the artist, I'm the lookout and embellisher. The third guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is by Jen Louden.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

There's the barrier of artistic quality--funders, trustees, or staff members who argue that work by non-canonical artists is not up to the standards of the institution. Reading the report, I kept thinking of Rick Lowe, the artist and community activist behind Project Row Houses in Houston.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

More than any generation before, kids in “Gen Z” use online technology to experience, understand, and change their world. And despite their youth (its oldest members are only now leaving their teens), kids in Generation Z are regularly rocking social media for social good. Helping Your Teen Give Back.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. We are trying to change the visitors’ experience at the museum as well as ownership of what is in the museum, break down the walls between the public and the museum. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Find representatives of this community--staff, volunteers, visitors, trusted partners--and learn more about their experiences. Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. It's rooted in the assets and needs of creative teens in our County.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. One on side are the conversations we have with our visitors, which mostly focus on engagement experiences.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The event was oversold, and participants raved about the experience. The concept goes like this: if you want to invite in people who don't traditionally engage with your offerings, you offer them an experience that is so tailored to their unique interests and preferred modes of engagement that it really is only for them.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They were there for artist talks. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders. But it also makes their "front-end" experience incoherent. They were there for project brainstorming.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. Frontiers is a “first person shooter” style experience surrounding Europe’s migration policies. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. the capacity to experiment with one???s He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. We need employees who focus less on creating experiences directly for visitors and more on creating platforms for visitors to share with each other.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Everyone can have her own personal experience of history. Finally, many art museums do fabulous, highly participatory projects that are led by participatory artists who work specifically in the realm of dialogue or active social participation. This means that an activity construed as educational (i.e.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

The collection is disaggregated, grouped by floor (Painting and Sculpture 1) rather than artist, movement, time period, or geography. Most featured Name of Artist, Name of Piece, Year of Execution, Materials. How long did it take this artist to make this piece? Did the artist like it? Did the artist like it?

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. We want to focus on experiences and the experience of culture is an interaction, that's why these places need to be live.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

But her experience and those of the residents in her community inspired her greatest work, A Raisin in the Sun , the first play written by an African American to be produced on Broadway. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art. Lorraine Hansberry. Edmonia Lewis.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. Part 2: It's How Aggressive You Are My first year in museums, I tried to get as much broad experience as possible. I met lovely people in engineering, but I found the work to be too detail-oriented and microscopic in scope to satisfy me.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

A group in their late teens/early 20s were wandering through the museumwide exhibition on love. At the adjacent table, my colleague Stacey Garcia was meeting with a local artist, Kyle Lane-McKinley, to talk about an upcoming project. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

Later, when were chatting with a small group of people in the lobby, we noticed a group of teens walking by looking a little sad. Then once they visit have such a great experience that they want to stay connected with the museum through social channels. Artists have been using the right tool at the right time to make art.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

We''re more successful when we target particular communities or audiences and design experiences for them. What started as a series of experiments and happy accidents is now embedded in how we develop and evaluate projects. It''s impossible for any organization or business to do a great job being for everyone.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2011

Let's say you spend a year working with a group of teens to co-create an exhibition, or you invite members and local artists to help redesign the lobby. But it's a shame when visitors can't experience the energy that went into the making of a participatory project--when the product of a living process is a dead thing.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Going to MAH and seeing the LOVE exhibition on First Friday was a wonderful experience. We experimented with many different forms of visitor participation throughout the building, trying to balance social and individual, text-based and artistic, cerebral and silly. After the Breakup, I."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

The science of capital punishment from DNA to execution Religion Teen suicide, teen cutting – I wanted to include these in my museum’s “Hall of Human Life” teen area. The cow or pig exhibit is called “Meet Your Meat.” and displayed in the museum. Management was horrified.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

But exhibitions have the potential to use all those narrative tools PLUS objects, immersive design, and interactive experiences to tell stories. When we experience intense depth, as in the Minnesota History Center's Open House , which explores the stories of residents of one St. But tight doesn't have to mean limited.

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