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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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There are lots of great science museum resources, but not where these kids can walk after school. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. One thing you''ll notice when you walk in is a ton of user-generated content. The interest is there.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

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The whole process of developing an exhibition tends to get stuck behind a museum's doors. Well, if we can come up with an open structure where anyone who works at any level of the process could share that process-that would be very unique and add very high value. So if NSF is funding it, is it only for science exhibitions?

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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You may want to open a window with the ScratchR homepage so you can refer to it throughout this post. Yes, it is possible for someone to reveal private information on a public comment board, but the number of community eyes on each board means that that kind of content can be seen publicly and addressed quickly. Why people participate.