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Friday, July 11, 2008
No, these are neither the words of a self-important curator nor a well-spoken museum director. the crowd-curated photo exhibition now open at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It is a substantive research contribution by the museum to the social technology field at large. As with any good museum exhibition, Click! Click! Click!
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
This week, thoughts on Chapter 12 of Elaine Gurian’s book Civilizing the Museum , "Threshold Fear: Architecture program planning." In this essay, Elaine discusses the various barriers to entry for non-traditional visitors to museums, that is, the threshold fear that keeps such potential visitors from walking in our doors.
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
This is a bonus installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Every Tuesday in June, this blog featured a guest post examining some aspect of the book. Thanks to ALL the guests who have helped make this book discussion a success! Often they do so without reading the book. 1961).
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Welcome to the first installment of the Visitor Voices book club. This week, we're looking at the first section, Talking Back and Talking Together , which features comment boards, talk-back walls, and discussion forums at a variety of museums. Rather than rehash each of the projects (hint: read the book!), When a comment book?
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Monday, August 18, 2008
I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Me: Have you ever been to this museum? meetup for Elite Yelp!
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
I've written before about the inspiring work that the Brooklyn Museum of Art is doing with their community-focused efforts. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.
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Monday, October 6, 2008
A few weeks ago, I learned about Scholastic Books' new series, The 39 Clues , which ties together a ten-book mystery with an online gaming environment. They have paid for ten books written by ten different authors, and the books are being released every few months over the next two years. Each book unlocks a clue.
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Sunday, May 27, 2007
You've probably heard of the Creation Museum , opening tomorrow near Cincinatti. The Creation Museum is itself a creation of the Answers in Genesis ministry, and has the most unique museum mission statements I've ever seen. Museums, especially science museums, are places that seek to engage the mind, not the heart.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Between high-altitude hijinks, run-ins with wildlife, and very long days of hiking, I finished John Falk's new book, Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. In other words, if you are a curious person, you will go to museums to learn new things. And where do museums fit in? Is this enough?
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Many institutions do this unintentionally--by providing post-its or comment books, pens or crayons. This technique was used in the Slavery in New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society and continues in the popular StoryCorps project. "Where were you last night?" A lone "What do you think?"
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