Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

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. Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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MAY 21, 2014

LinkedIn has a new feature where people can congratulate each other on work anniversaries. It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. I helped them find funding and partners and time to make amazing work happen.

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JULY 31, 2013

Thank you to everyone who recommended a favorite post from the past or who helped out with a guest post. 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. To me, Museum 2.0

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MARCH 18, 2015

A small room, packed with gadgets, packed with fossils, packed with tools, packed with PEOPLE everywhere making and exploring and building and learning. The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. That taught us a lot.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you say, “being transparent is part of our mission, so we need a way to share more of the behind-the-scenes everyday work we do here, and since people here are comfortable writing and taking pictures, the best way to do that is via a blog,” then people will come onboard. Sixth, you need other people to help you.

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JUNE 12, 2012

It was fascinating to see people--across social differences--responding to representations of love in the paintings, images, objects and narratives that were part of the installation. It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement.

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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! Some of the key lessons we discussed were: providing crystal-clear criteria and constraints to help participants focus their work.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Please help make this a great resource for everyone. Now, onto the links: If you have a great idea for a participatory learning project that uses digital tools, the MacArthur Foundation wants to give you money. Play starts on October 6, but people are already debating the future on Facebook. I can't wait for part four.

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Fund Teen Museum Game 20

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. I met lovely people in engineering, but I found the work to be too detail-oriented and microscopic in scope to satisfy me. We had only eight people doing everything related to content and programming at the museum.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

This week, I'm hoping you can help solve a mystery on a similar topic. While standing on line, I noticed something surprising: when a car full of riders came back to the boarding area after their ride, people in line stuck out their hands to slap the hands of the riders in the car. Step 1: people on line wait for rollercoaster.

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Museum Participatory Teen Game 20

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AUGUST 7, 2008

It means seeking out people in their "natural habitat" of the social Web and paying attention to what they are blogging, writing, and saying about your institution. How does it help the Exploratorium to listen to these environments if they can't be controlled? What does it mean to listen to the groundswell?

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AUGUST 3, 2009

We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem. Connecting with communities means making conscious decisions that invite in particular people. Pick a group of people to whom you would like to be relevant, and work with them to deliver programs that meet their needs.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

People answer questions differently in harshly lit interrogation rooms than they do in welcoming therapists' offices or in the privacy of their own computer terminals. There was a wonderful example at the Ontario Science Center in their Hot Zone area, which features several voting and commenting kiosks popular with teens.

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MAY 16, 2007

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, even ExhibitFiles are tools that allows people--strangers and friends--to connect with one another. Paradoxically, the anonymity of online interactions both protects and exposes people to harm.

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APRIL 18, 2012

A group in their late teens/early 20s were wandering through the museumwide exhibition on love. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking. I don't know what formed the bridge between the artists and the teens in this circumstance. Kyle had brought his baby with him.

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Community Teen Build Social 42

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MAY 8, 2013

In the past, I''ve subscribed to the theory that an organization should target many different groups and types of people to serve a constellation of specific audiences across diverse affinities, needs, and interests. Our goal in doing this work is to bring people together across difference and build a more cohesive community.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Museums and other venues are offering special programs for teens, for hipsters, for people who want a more active or spiritual or participatory experience. In most cases the goal is the same: to attract new audiences and help them understand how the institution (and the arts experience) might fit into their lives.

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