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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. To apply the results of my analysis to produce a community-driven program design specifically for implementation at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (the MAH). You can download and read the full version of my thesis here.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

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Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s.

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Want to Co-Create an Exhibition on a Hot Issue? Introducing the Community Issue Exhibition Toolkit

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You can download it for free right now. This project wove together many different participatory threads. You can now download the Community Issue Exhibition Toolkit , a guide to this co-creation process. Short story: we learned a lot. We wrote a toolkit about our process. What did we learn? There were over 100 partners.

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Everyone's Smithsonian: Video, Slides, and an Open Strategic Planning Process

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Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The slides are also available for download. Tags: participatory museum professional development. Seriously, if you are thinking "should I read more or should I just watch the video?"

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

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You can see or download my slides and you can watch the video of the talk. I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. Or you can read this condensed version of the talk.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

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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. You can view and download all the slides here.

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Guest Post: Radical Collaboration - Tools for Partnering with Community Members

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The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. Document the event: Share photographs of the event on social media outlets and always have fully downloadable photographs available for their use. Can't wait to hear what you think.