Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. And yet in the museum world, we still see interactives as being mostly for kids.

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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. The visitor is given a copy of her poster and the museum keeps a copy as well.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 21, 2015

illustration by Beck Tench Each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History hosts MuseumCamp , a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part summer camp. It will challenge us to confront blank canvases, empower others, and take care of ourselves. This year, our theme is SPACE.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Wandering around, exploring, collecting experiences… sounds like a museum visit to me! I read the (long) article fascinated, wondering if such a resource might exist for museum exhibitions, charting the top 10 exhibitions that use play, or storytelling, or any other core museum design tenet. There are surprises in store.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This week''s guest post is written by Julie Bowen, VP of Experience and Engagement at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. But it would never work in my museum because my boss would never go for it.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Ben Martin, who writes the Certified Association Executive Blog , Jennifer Caleshu of the Bay Area Discovery Museum , and MailOurMilitary. Feel free to add to or edit what's there in the wiki , lots of blanks to fill in. Go read them here. What are some more advanced tips? What are the best resources?

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Wiki Resource Module Tips 50

Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. We feel that TechSoup is behind making sure our books just aren't a bunch of blank pages. Environmental Impact. They said you want an example? " Exemplary Work.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. We feel that TechSoup is behind making sure our books just aren't a bunch of blank pages. Environmental Impact. They said you want an example? " Exemplary Work.

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Arts Alaska North America Photography 36

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

In addition, we are building the National Law Enforcement Museum, to tell the story of law enforcement in America. Sometimes tearing already existing content apart is faster than a blank canvas. Each year we help in organizing National Police Week and hold an annual Candlelight Vigil, with over 20,000 attendees. TL: Copy and paste.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2007

Operation Spy, the narrative immersion experience at the International Spy Museum, does the same thing. There are many Second Life and museum purists who bristle at these kinds of projects. If the whole point of Second Life (or a museum visit) is for people to have an exploratory experience free of consumer B.S.,

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 3, 2007

The staff brought in Darcie and artist Michael Brown to help them create "An experiment that provokes questions about art and its presentation in museums." Why is it in an art museum?" As Darcie put it: "In the museum field, we know that learning happens when there is discussion and conversation. I wish I had seen it.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Seb Chan of fresh + new, the blog from the Powerhouse Museum in Australia, ran with this idea to comment on the impact of disaggregation on the way that visitors use museum collections available on the web. I'd like to approach this concept from a physical, in-museum perspective.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2007

Like going to a theater and showing a blank screen. When I read this speech, I wonder, where do museum experiences fit in? How often do museum visitors wonder what will happen next? The God game archetype has a very different basic premise than most game/museum/experience design. Movie: What’s going to happen next.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2007

Recently, I’ve become a little disheartened by the extent to which the web has dominated my—and others’—thinking about ways that museums can integrate 2.0 But today I had an experience that reinvigorated my love for and belief in tangible projects that can fill museums with content that is user-generated, shared, and explored.

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Generation Content Lesson Museum 30

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

This meant doing two things: numbering the pages and leaving a few blank in the front for the Table of Contents. Now, I use the notebook strictly for notes, and I use a mixture of my digital task list and scrap paper for task lists. Added a Table of Contents to my new notebook.

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Tools Work Organization Calendar 36

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

In this week's book club post , Elaine Gurian commented on the failures of NMAI, and of many museums, to find new palettes for interpretation and presentation of museum content, especially when the intended result is an emotional, spiritual, or non object-focused experience. You bet--and I wouldn't complain if it wasn't "fun."

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

It's a surprising fact that volunteer designers don't want a blank slate for their creativity. What's the biggest mistake people make when involving non-professionals in exhibition design? Here's one I've made twice: not providing participants with clear criteria for success. They want articulated goals and expectations.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

It’s still blank. Where do you go to have, blank, done? ” And it’s just a 10-page packet of all these kinds of questions with blanks afterwards. I think this is Museum of Modern Art in New York City. I passed out the blank sheet and we collected blank sheets. ” We do that. Chad: Yeah.

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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. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. The Love Lounge I LOVE. with sharpies.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 5, 2014

Consider three very different talkbacks in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History''s fall exhibition, Santa Cruz is in the Heart: cocktail napkins, rear view mirrors, and refrigerator certificates. design evaluation Museum of Art and History participatory museum usercontent' Each of these talkbacks was very different.

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Test Museum Participatory Measure 43

Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2009

Smith , a museum technologist who bridges the gap between academia, curatorial work, musical composition, and technology. He writes about the lessons he's learned about how to talk tech with curators, educators, and other museum beings who don't know what "OCR" means (like me). This guest post was written by Koven J. It’s not pretty.

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Language Museum Professional Application 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Robert Garfinkle of the Science Museum of Minnesota commented at ASTC that the cacophony of voices from videos in the exhibition RACE make people feel more comfortable talking about the issues the exhibition raises, since they are in the environment of other people's words. To look at a blank wall? The accompaniment is a strange one.

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Voice Museum Vietnam Music 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

This post was written by my colleague Nora Grant, Community Programs Coordinator at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Pop Up” has become an international buzz term to describe ephemeral, experimental projects--from pop up restaurants to pop up boutiques--but a “Pop Up Museum” is still somewhat mystifying.

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