Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

It's possible--likely even--that today's adults are more motivated by interactive experiences than generations past. There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. We've been trying to actively combat this at The Museum of Art & History (MAH) in Santa Cruz.

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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. This sounds ridiculous, but it’s the way many museums approach participatory projects. When I talk about Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

And we generated over 18,000 mood data points for our researcher, Frances Ulman, Ph.D. The rigorous and fast paced setting of academia can rarely provide a sort of experimental scratch pad that is ultimately generative for new hypotheses and methods of inquiry. Experimonth had the potential to generate new scientific knowledge.

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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

MARCH 14, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. The MAH fundamentally has two jobs: we bring art and history out into our community, and we invite our community in. We want to break out.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Over time the movement and arrangement of things trails a layered aesthetic that convey histories and narratives of changing communities passing through this unfolding three-story artwork. Through the generative potential for use and re-use of things, Elsewhere has arranged a public commons in the form of a shared resource.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

--Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

A national election is the ultimate participatory project. This is especially true for young adults today ("millenials"), who exhibit many of the same attributes of the World War II "greatest" generation--increased civic engagement, optimism, sense of communal purpose and responsibility, and conformity to group norms.

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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. One thing you''ll notice when you walk in is a ton of user-generated content. comfort creative placemaking cultural competency design interview participatory museum'

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. While the museum and the school didn't have a strong history of collaboration, this project seemed reasonable enough to try. it's a Secret! ,

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. And I think the fourth and fifth are bizarre and ungenerous to visitors.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

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. The Minnesota History Center team solicited visitor nominations for exhibition topics and then built an exhibition out of those contributions.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

But the design of Side Trip really allows those stories to flourish, both through creative acts like the poster-making and light show and through participatory expression on the rolodexes and the Youtube-a-phone. Projects design participatory museum. It is made for visitors to be creators, explorers, and participants.

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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! They don't generate rental revenue (usually). Consider the experience of the Computer History Museum and their Yelp! meetup for Elite Yelp! That's not part of our mission!

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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

AUGUST 25, 2009

Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors." Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives. A lone "What do you think?" What have you seen work well, and what have you seen fail?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

But you are also always generating implicit data passively via the things you click on, items you spend a long time looking at or listening to, and the choices your friends are making. Pre-Netflix, there was never a history of people giving something "four stars" when they dropped it in the return slot.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The whole process of being interviewed for the story made me question the stories we tell and words we use to describe participatory work. What is the metaphor for participatory arts? I don''t want to be judged by metaphors of crowdsourcing or "the selfie generation." Ideas Museum of Art and History Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Journal Participatory Museum Community 54

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. This separates the desire to participate from the actual generation creative output.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Most blog software can generate a RSS feed with the click of a button - you don??????t Step 8: Understand The Power Remix Culture and User-Generated Content. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. My experiment with user-generated content is here.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we''re approaching this challenge through a different lens: social bridging. Family Art Workshops" suffer from anemic participation whereas multi-generational festivals are overrun with families. Museum of Art and History programs social bridging' And rarely the twain shall meet.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. It is our turn to make history. General / #NI16 / @netimpact.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

When you think of a platform for user-generated content, you may not think of that platform as having power. User-generated content sites control user and community behavior, both implicitly through the tools that are and aren't offered, and explicitly through community management. The power to use and exploit user-generated content.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

At the bottom of the page, there's an option to "remove my personal data" (please don't click this) - and I found myself staring at it semi-incredulous that this impersonal website had anything to do with the data I had generated onsite. When you augment a photo in the Chicago History Museum's Get Lincolnized!

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

But if the digital platform works, it could generate interest far beyond western Massachusetts. As a platform for such local activity, more participatory forms of engagement are already envisaged—an area “culture pass” for museums and arts institutions is one exciting example—to further stimulate local activity.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I didn't grow up staring open-mouthed at natural history dioramas or wandering through art galleries. There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. They are active and awesome. My story is about radical educational philosophy. I don't work in museums because I love them. I go on hikes.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. When you think of a platform for user-generated content, you may not think of that platform as having power. The power to use and exploit user-generated content. But the companies that run YouTube, Flickr, and other major Web 2.0 Every Web 2.0

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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.” Prior to fair, the website had generated 200-300 responses. We had to do research on some, but not as many as you might think.

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