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

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Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments!

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Answers to the Ten Questions I am Most Often Asked

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Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? At the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology (search "Vietnam" here ), staff have told me that participatory projects work best when a community of participants is engaged in a group process where they can come to consensus and defer to the group.

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Memorial Day 2012

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On Memorial Day, 1970 while some mourned the fallen warrior, others grieved for the students at Kent State, murdered by National Guardsman, our own countrymen, as they were protesting the war in Vietnam. That was 1970. It is now 2012, more than forty years later. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. © Copyright 2012.

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