Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. The purpose of my thesis was two-fold: To research and analyze community and civic engagement practices, methods, theories and examples in other museum programs. I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The first of these reasons is practical.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. This is both an issue of practice and of media coverage. Conference sessions on reaching young people.

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Audience Washington Museum Intergenerational 49

Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

While much of the branding and design inspiration we run across is either from consumer brands or individual artists, it all provides us with the opportunity to discover new principles, practices, and approaches that we can incorporate into our nuanced nonprofit world.

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Design Experiment Nonprofit Collaboration 52

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. Community members, artists, and organizations increasingly see our museum as a place where they can advance their own goals, and so they approach us. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see.

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Platform Open Museum Participatory 41

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Our archeology did not aim to uncover the hidden voice of my grandmother, but instead to begin an ongoing practice of recreation.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. When we have events, it's fabulous, but other times it can feel a bit cavernous and dead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet. These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. Meet Susan Silverman. I was teaching Web1.0

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Flickr Professional Participatory New York 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. Lots of inspiring and practical tips below - enjoy! We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

We have witnessed and experienced incredible moments of transformation: homeless people and history buffs working together on historic restoration, graffiti artists and knitters collaborating on new artistic projects, visitors from different backgrounds making collages, or sculptures, or dance performances together.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” We urge museums to consider these questions by first looking within.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise. The conversation about community engagement at AAM has evolved, and this year, it had a distinctly social practice/art bent. History and science museums. time to step it up.

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Reflection Columbus Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

That is to say, we engaged in each Experimonth for the pure enjoyment of it, rather than any real serious or practical purpose. We ran with it and have since generated data about decision-making, cooperation, competition and negotiation for scientists (and also some artists) to play with. Thus began a year of play.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

In his post Andrew asks, How do professional arts organizations foster and encourage participatory practice in our communities, and is that part of their job? Andrew's blog is one of 22 Arts Journal bloggers writing about everything from orchestra management to dance to a visual artist's diary.

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Arts Web Wisconsin Social 40

Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. I also believe that small and mid-sized museums are the leaders when it comes to innovation, particularly around participatory engagement. I knew we were moving somewhere nice.

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History Museum Arts Consultant 55

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers. They are artists whose experience deserves a home in our institution alongside painters, photographers, and sculptors.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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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. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. Three years later, we''re out of turnaround and into growth mode.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. They may employ local artists to help create visitor experiences. Trying to cover it up or smooth it out in favor of "best practices" does a disservice to the museum and the audience. But when I really think about it, all my favorites (so far) have one thing in common.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It’s not unusual for us to meet with an environmental activist, a balloon artist, a farmer, and the Mayor of Santa Cruz all in one day. When planning programs or events, we involve a combination of these groups to share and bridge audiences, bringing big, diverse crowds to new artists and ideas. Large and small (or no) followings.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

Joe Heimlich, the VSA conference program chair, explained that once the program committee settled on the theme of “Theory, Practice, and Conversations,” they decided to try to live up to the theme by focusing the whole conference around conversations. Why are they doing this?

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Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

The booklet features personal stories from Books, Librarians, and Readers alongside practical explanation of what it takes to coordinate a Living Library. It’s an enjoyable, practical, inspiring read. A museum tour in which a docent "tours" you to a variety of volunteer artists who talk about how they create their work.

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Library Model Museum Europe 20

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. Blogging helped me develop my ideas, engage in reflective practice, and pursue a growing passion for visitor participation in museums (and it's funny to look back and realize the first lines of my book came from one of the very first posts ).

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. It's also standard practice in community arts programs. One of these artists, a graffiti artist named Dan, had such a good time that he a.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. Smartphone images didn't read well given the limitations of screen size and the legibility of the artists' writings and drawings.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

How do you reconcile the desire to be inclusive with the practical imperative to target? We''ve seen surprising and powerful results--visitors from different backgrounds getting to know each other, homeless people and museum volunteers working together, artists from different worlds building new collaborative projects.

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Museum Social Arts History 55

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

What advice do you have for ways we might advance the practice of exhibit design for social interaction? Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent. In the end, the Advice exhibit offered four main experiences--two that were facilitated, and two that were unfacilitated.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2015

Send in your question, and it can be days before the artist or curator responds with an answer. If the conversations are about specific works of art, I would assume visitors would practically demand a real-time response. You’ve done other dialogic tech-enabled projects with visitors in the past. ASK is much more real-time.

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Museum Arts Interview Test 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

Why and how museums could develop their co-creative practice with the public, building on ideas from the performing arts and other non-museum organisations (free to download). When asked why these artistic directors were pursuing co-creative processes, "to make great art!" was the most overwhelming answer.

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