Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk. And perhaps most ambitiously, they see it as a community-based project. Or silk production.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

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. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2014

At any given time, we are on a hunter/gatherer mission for an upcoming project at our museum. Last summer it was beach chairs for a history exhibit. We provide plenty of intriguing content about exhibitions and events and the thing people click on most is the request for bottle caps. It''s the wishlist.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence. Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? History Museums OPPORTUNITIES - History museums are in many ways the best-suited for visitor participation.

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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

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. We often use them to add in extra content we couldn’t get into the label or assess people’s learning. The American Museum of Natural History had two wonderful moments happening this summer. But dinosaurs are sort of a freebie.

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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

APRIL 4, 2012

What forms of content delivery or participation might induce someone not just to read/look/listen but to care--and hopefully, to act? I was involved in early planning for this project, and we were all struck by the enormity of the challenges, our strong desire to make change, and the reality of what might be practical and possible.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I can't say that any one experience--working on a collage with other visitors, swinging on a hammock, discovering a participatory display for pocket artifacts in the bathroom--directly contributed to increased attendance and giving. They all have in concert, and they build on each other.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. We have seven participatory elements in our current exhibitions on three floors, ranging from voting to talkback walls to an in-depth "make a memory jar" craft activity. What would you do?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

It's a working document, and we mean to put it to work planning new projects with our partners. Here's the short version (read the whole thing here ): The Museum of Art & History is committed to creating exhibitions that inspire our diverse audiences to engage deeply with contemporary art and Santa Cruz County history.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

For this reason, I spoke specifically about how to make dream projects possible at real institutions. Pick apart your mission statement, and look for the words and phrases you can connect your project to. What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? Or you can read this condensed version of the talk.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2012

We're looking for an Exhibitions Manager to join our team here at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Would visitors "read" that as new content, or would the visual similarities make it seem like same old same old? What opportunities might that open up for participatory and community projects that evolve over time in the space?

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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. You are a museum insider and a content geek.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. Such participatory activities would be seen as a waste of time. Why go to the trouble of creating content if nothing is going to happen because of it? participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

The lead photo on this post is from a project I saw when I visited last spring. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise. History and science museums. for the galleries. Viability of meetups.

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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 the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. What the Videos Reveal I'm hooked on these videos, but I feel mixed about the content. Projects. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. Pouring through these materials, I was struck by several key elements of this project that made it work. They decided to ask children, and the project was born. it's a Secret! , What made Shh. it's a Secret!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2012

I know I have a lot to learn from the content AND the format of this report. This article sparked some interesting discussion online with colleagues from natural history museums, which deal with damage and touching very differently than art institutions do. This is just a super-interesting review of an exhibition of damaged art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. The classic mistake of organizations is to apply the very old publishing content and messages approach to the not so new social media. I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history. How can you tell the difference?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

It feels like a real gift to myself (and hopefully, to you) to schedule all this content now and not have to worry about it when my baby is born. You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Over the past few years, there have been several fabulous examples of pop-up museums focusing on visitor-generated content. The never-quite-opened National History Museum of the Netherlands created an innovative vending machine for historic objects, which traveled to festivals and urban centers for people to add their memories.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. Most Workshops also run a wide range of additional programs - supplemental school day programs, afterschool programs, mobile units that go to housing projects.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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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! This spanned all the projects. how do you set clear criteria for participation when the project is experimental and ever-changing?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

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! Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. event, the Computer History Museum had 15 reviews on Yelp!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

A large wall featured a slowly undulating, multi-colored projection passing by, like the visual aftermath of an accident in a lava lamp factory. The content-producing experiences were engrossing for creators, but more importantly, the spectator experience of these visitor-generated stories, posters, and light shows was really excellent.

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Forum One

JUNE 6, 2024

Think like a musician Those who have played music in a band or orchestra or sang in a choir understand the profound impact of an engaged and participatory audience. Regular Updates and Fresh Content Just as new releases engage music fans, you can design for your experiences to support fresh and relevant content.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

I'm not talking about guiding content; I'm talking about guiding form. If your goal is to encourage visitors to perceive themselves as partners in the content co-creation experience, make room for their thoughts sooner rather than later. If someone asks you a question on Twitter, you can only respond with 140 characters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

static content delivery machines) to 2.0 dynamic content aggregation and network machines)." at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. I started the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. Techies knew about the project first and were most likely to sign up for early dates on the calendar.)

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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

JULY 2, 2009

Pre-Netflix, there was never a history of people giving something "four stars" when they dropped it in the return slot. Rating content from one to five stars may seem like a frivolous activity, but for Netflix, it's serious business. Tags: personalization participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences.

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