Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

Earlier in 2013, I was amazed to visit one of the new “Studio” spaces at the Denver Art Museum. The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. Does it matter?

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Twenty Hats

AUGUST 18, 2020

For eight months, 30 museum-based volunteer managers gathered to explore challenges specific to their brand of volunteer engagement. The practical volunteer management skills – the supervision, the policies, the strategies – it’s easier to find instruction in these areas. My second circle was much more specialized.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

We’re not saying that this will be your one and only chance to party in a venue that was voted one of the ten coolest museums in the world by the New York Times, but we’re saying that you should definitely take advantage just in case. It’s like it was meant to be.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It might record that the user clicked play and then clicked pause after 16 seconds, or that they searched for the hours of a museum, clicked through to the information page, and stayed for 40 seconds. In our webinar, we provide step-by-step instructions! In your UA instance, you’ll find it via the Admin area (the gear icon).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2017

This is the seventh 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. My museum was being sued over the Abbott Square project. The lawsuit was instructive because it had rules, like a game. We were zooming again.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

We’re not saying that this will be your one and only chance to party in a venue that was voted one of the ten coolest museums in the world by the New York Times, but we’re saying that you should definitely take advantage just in case. It’s like it was meant to be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. We were lucky enough to have a fabulous space for the workshop in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I said yes. Photo by James Leventhal.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But Vi doesn't work in a science museum. Khan Academy, the free, nonprofit online source for educational instructional videos, is a young powerhouse in the online learning space. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who are well known in museums for their excellent Smarthistory website and podcasts. the way the best museums do.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2014

How does this question play out in museums? At the 2013 American Alliance of Museums annual conference, a group of exhibition designers explored authenticity in a session called Is it Real? They explored a huge range of museum objects and grey areas of "realness." In others, he instructed one of his assistants to paint it.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. SETUP Cut your instructions down to as little text as possible. Accolades are more inspiring than instructions. The same is true for paper instructions mounted on the table. They will be impressed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

When I signed up to participate in the Girl Effect Blogging Campaign, I wasn't sure how I would contribute, but when I connected with Carinne Brody at an International Museum of Women event a couple weeks ago, I knew she would be a wonderful person to talk with us about the connection between girls' education and global health.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Musical Instrument Museum. This pairing speaks directly to my passion for the arts – my day job is as manager for individual giving at the Musical Instrument Museum , and I serve on several music-related boards, as well as perform as a flutist and singer. Maureen Baker , Manager for Individual Giving.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

How do you find your way around a multi-faceted museum? I spent some time playing with this question last week at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a large general museum that is moving toward redesign of the permanent galleries. The instruction becomes a kind of social object that gives people something to talk about.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I often think museums are like church--passionately loved by staff and devout audiences, irrelevant or off-putting to lapsed or uninterested adults, alien and overwhelming to newcomers. Two years ago, my dad and I embarked on a podcast project called Museum Hater. Help people understand why you do what you do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

The curriculum integrates the use of technology, for all aspects of instruction and managing the school. It was designed for learning – almost like an exhibits at any children’s museum in the US. There are computers and large monitors in each classroom, Internet access, and of course, the software development.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2019

Visitor (though, really my child) at the Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK As I said, last week, I’ve been to a travelin’ girl for the last couple of years. So, instead, I am offering 3 posts this month about what I learned from visiting more than 300 museums. Last week, I talked about what I learned about museum workers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

Once you receive the invitation to join Pinterest, simply follow the instructions to create an account. Only add your location if you are a location-based nonprofit, such as a museum, zoo, performing arts venue, etc.: Request an invite and let the anticipation begin! Sign up for a Pinterest Account and set up your Pinterest Profile.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

Today I got an early present from the San Francisco NPR station, KQED, which aired a piece on Museum 2.0 featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). This concept has spawned a question I like to obsess over: What would a museum look like that got better the more people used it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

One of them was the curator of the world largest archaeological museum, Grand Egyptian Museum. That is why we need to show them clear instructions and reward them with praises. In 2010, the conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland. At one of the pre-conference master classes, I met 2 young women from Cairo.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

A man walks into a museum. Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. There were no written instructions, just a mural that suggested what to do and labels that prompted people for their name and memory. He shares a story.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism. No small task for a museum exhibition.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2014

Another idea – create an exit survey at your museum that asks simple questions like “what’s your favorite exhibit” or “how many times have you visited the museum.”. Give your supporters resources like The Top 3 Things to Do After Making A Fundraising Page that gives step by step instruction on the best way to get your message out.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

What role does “promoting human happiness” play in the mission statements and actions of museums? That’s the question I’m pondering thanks to Jane McGonigal and the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM). Earlier today, the CFM offered a free webcast of Jane McGonigal’s talk on gaming, happiness, and museums.

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2012

The official selections will be announced by the end of July and the festival will take place at the Spirit of Texas Theater at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, Texas on September 12-14. They are accepting films through June 30, though it's only free to submit through June 15th. Submit now!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Barrie gives lovely instructions on how to close your eyes, squeeze tight, and conjure the Mermaid's Lagoon. But it's not so easy to integrate into larger-scale museum writing. The key is not to write the story/label/instructions. What does Peter Pan make you think of? A ticking crocodile? Julie Andrews? Johnny Depp?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

As one participant said, "the museum feels friendly in a way it usually doesn't." People make the museum friendly, not activities. For example, visitors were invited to add their own secrets to hampers in front of selected artworks and were instructed to write secrets or memories that those specific artworks evoked.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 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! Me: Have you ever been to this museum? meetup for Elite Yelp!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2011

Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Museums in Houston, I was honored to chair a fabulous panel on empowering museum staff to take creative risks ( slides here ). Beck beautifully described her entry into museum work. What kind of support do you need to be confident about taking a risk in your work?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. MOMA has standard art museum labels. When I asked an art museum educator about this (“How should I look at art?”) The review was harsh. Is this enough? I’m begging here.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. We made a giant mobile for the center of the museum out of origami birds folded from visitor comments received in the past year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0. I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. And yet many museums are fixated on creators. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. You are handed a pre-mixed color and a brush and a set of instructions.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2007

I’m working on a virtual museum project these days, and one question that often comes up is “What is the most fun thing we could let visitors do here that they can’t do in the real world?” After all, most of our ideas don’t require a virtual landscape; any museum could commission Kid Rock’s tour of the galleries.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

According to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a staggering 100 million Americans don't have a broadband connection in their households. TechSoup for Libraries: Edge Benchmarks: Gadget Instruction. Additionally, some students don't have digital access at home. The Role of Nonprofits. Microsoft YouthSpark Hub.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. It is an incredible museum experience. All of the instructions are handwritten on paper or cardboard.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). Song Reader looks back and encourages reengaging in a tradition that fosters participation. That''s expected.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2008

What if witty cultural commentators reviewed museums the way they do music and restaurants? If Anthony Lane turned his cutting tongue from movies to museums? If Stephen Colbert "reported" on museums at times other than during the TV writer's strike? And instructive. It's painful. And revelatory. And painful.

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