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Blueprint Book Club Part 1: How Do You Create a Future-Thinking History Museum?

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Imagine you've just been tasked with developing an innovative, future-thinking national museum for your country's history. Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). The Museum directors released Blueprint as a showcase for these plans.

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A Radical, Simple Formula for Pop-Up Museums

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Pop-Up Museum [n]: a short-term institution existing in a temporary space. Over the past few years, there have been several fabulous examples of pop-up museums focusing on visitor-generated content. Maria Mortati runs the wonderful SF Mobile Museum , which roams the Bay Area showing mini-exhibits on evocative themes.

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Upcoming Museum 2.0 Book Club: Blueprint

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Once there was a project to design a national history museum in the Netherlands. The team developed some highly innovative digital projects and approaches to history. I chose this book for our next Museum 2.0 I chose this book for our next Museum 2.0 What happened? It's about Europe.

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Blueprint Book Club Part 3: The Future of the National Vending Machine

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This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. How is the exhibit living on at the museum and what is it like to take over someone else’s project? It was solid: in the 1.5 It was solid: in the 1.5

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Six Museum-Related Blogs You Might Not Know About That Are Really Good

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I believe that the museum blogosphere is still underdeveloped and there's lots of room for people to share their inspiration, experience, and ideas. When anyone asks me who's doing great work blending online and onsite experiences in museums, I send them to Beck Tench at the Museum of Life and Science. The Museum of the Future.

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Anyone Who Says this isn't a Business is Nuts.

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In the Netherlands, State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra slashed 200 million euros from the national budget for the arts, leading to the close of the innovative National History Museum project and crippling many superbly inventive and inspiring organizations like Mediamatic and the Waag Society.

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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

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The First Wave includes 6 museums, 5 performing arts organizations, 3 public libraries, 3 parks, and 3 community centers. The Change Network program launches next week in prototype form with a First Wave of twenty organizations (full list at the end of this post). Half are led by people of color or indigenous people.