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Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

Museum 2.0

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. Extra credit if you read the Our Museum evaluation (or its summary ) as well. In summary: read the report. Bernadette Peters' provocative 2011 report, Whose Cake is it Anyway? didn't mince words. Here are my three top takeaways.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

Each one-hour segment was reduced to about 5 minutes and this audio summary was made available every week on the IVR system. . When listeners called, they were able to choose their language. Sullivan said that this dual language ability increased the complexity of the Freedom Fone interface quite a bit. .

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A Decade of Museums and Museum Work

Museum 2.0

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. They show the possibilities of text in our spaces, and the ways our writers are using language to include (rather than exclude) audiences.

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