Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

It''s a powerful experience for those who participate. Art museums have often been criticized by some for being mausoleums for art, with conservators serving as unctuous morticians. I''ve seen participatory artworks that lay untouched by visitors because the invitation to participate is not explicit enough.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism. There was no specific instruction with the dots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

My experience has informed me over and over again that you will fail. I cannot help but think of the green movement, and its failure to transcend the environmentalist and conservation movements to the point that American households are doing everything they can to become green. I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history.

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Create Green Social Media Structure 94

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. Aesthetics of Experience: Photo-taking is distracting for other visitors.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

This is an excellent "pre blogging experience." Nature Conservancy. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. My experiment with user-generated content is here.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

MN150 is a newish permanent exhibition (opened in Oct 2007) at the Minnesota History Center that marks the sesquicentennial of Minnesota with 150 of “the most influential forces in the state’s history.” We had success with another exhibit with an unusual format called open house in which the visitor experience is pretty open-ended.

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