Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). When the opportunity to design my own two-hour museum adventure at the American Museum of Natural History presented itself, I jumped at the chance. Who is the audience for Museum Hack? Today on Museum 2.0,

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

And pop culture icons, from basketball players to rock stars , are making highly visible commentary with their clothes and voices. Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” Where do museums fit in?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

When I worked briefly with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative to conceptualize a mobile phone-based game to connect visitors to the park to its cultural institutions and history, I knew Ken would be the perfect person to make it happen. They leave LOTS of room for the audience to ask their own questions and fill in their own answers.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Our archeology did not aim to uncover the hidden voice of my grandmother, but instead to begin an ongoing practice of recreation. Over time the movement and arrangement of things trails a layered aesthetic that convey histories and narratives of changing communities passing through this unfolding three-story artwork.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. Showing that their voice matters.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. You have an audience need and an institutional value, and now you just need a verb that connects them. While most of the voices represented are positive about a "Smithsonian 2.0"

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. And I think the fourth and fifth are bizarre and ungenerous to visitors.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

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! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By Excellent new blogs focused on the field like Museum Audience Insight and Useum. But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. As the audience for the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors." If you feel that your audience needs monitoring or social support, position the talkback stations in open settings. What have you seen work well, and what have you seen fail?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. It is our turn to make history. General / #NI16 / @netimpact.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Read through the below condensed excerpt below for Jeremy’s insight into new power versus old power, how it’s used as a currency, and how it affects the world around us: Rachel: We are going to start today, Jeremy, by having you explain, because we are working with a live audience here who weren’t all necessarily in his keynote.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

Near the end of the talk, an audience member asked, How do you choose which level to approach a topic when your listeners range from people who know nothing to people who know all too much? We have a show coming up right now about synthetic biology, where engineers are building life forms that are new to existence, new to the history of life.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

One of the primary fears museum professionals (and all professionals) have about entering new relationships with audiences is the fear of losing control. In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" It lets you be the only expert with a voice. Ideas participatory museum usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. One of the primary fears museum professionals (and all professionals) have about entering new relationships with audiences is the fear of losing control. In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?"

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

But there are other times when the message isn't simple, and in those cases, visitor voices can help strategically shape multi-dimensional exhibitions. It can be uncomfortable or downright limiting to declare yourself and your single voice the authority on a complex or multi-faceted topic. None of that made sense.

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